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Subject: Re: Fw: dd - cloning a disk. Second Part!
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> Sorry, I forgpt to add this,
>
> I the answer is yes to the first question (original question), then, what 
> happens if one 'dd's a small, say 36 GM disk to a larger one, say 73 GB. Can 
> the newly made disk be resized so as not to loose 1/2 of it?

yes - with growisofs and disklabel

i actually did this, when joining 2 partition to one. i had chance to copy 
files from smaller to bigger partition (fitted), then with dd i MOVED this 
partition on disk, then did disklabel and did growfs to resize