Transfer F7 partition to a new hard disk

Paul Smith phhs80 at gmail.com
Sat Oct 20 17:53:21 UTC 2007


On 10/20/07, Jonathan Dieter <jdieter at gmail.com> wrote:
> > It was /dev/sdd1. I did not want to copy the two partitions of /dev/sdd.
>
> Okay, that's the problem.  You can't copy a single partition
> (i.e. /dev/sdd1) to a hard drive (i.e. /dev/sda).  However, you can
> partition /dev/sda and then dd from /dev/sdd1 to /dev/sda1.
>
> Just be aware that you'll have to run grub-install again to install grub
> onto /dev/sda.

I want to create two partitions in /dev/sda, both with the same size.
How can I do that?

Paul




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