how to clone a linux HDD to a higher capacity HDD and still able to use the full capacity of the new disk?

vloebergs · Feb 25, 2014

I cloned a HDD of 80Gb with Linux (Centos5) to a HDD which has 500Gb capacity.
After cloning (using off-line device of Ewent) the new HDD shows only 80Gb as its size.

How to clone a lower capacity HDD to a bigger one, without losing the full size (cap) of the new disk?

Phillip Corcoran · Feb 25, 2014

That's what cloning is - - creating an exact copy (same capacity) of one drive to another drive.

There are ways to fix the problem, though you may have to repeat the cloning process using different software.
See this thread: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-1767935/full-hdd-capacity-cloning.html

Personally I would have created a disk image instead of cloning, as disk imaging software allows you to resize the image to completely fill a larger capacity drive. However, you would need to have a third drive available to save the image to.

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