Upgrading to big hard drive need help ?

[kadi]

Hello everybody
I have debian etch 4 on my server, and need to go to bigger hard drive
so the one debian on now is (40GB) and the big one is (80GB), i tried
ghost 4 linux , then i select copy drive and it did copy the drive to the
bigger one, but 2 things happen:
1- error on the startup of the big one : "Duplicated volume ID"
2- it wasted the rest of the drive space, used 35GB like the rest is not
valid, it shows when i checked there is 38GB unmounted and unformated
the problem also that it made it 2 partions.
Is there a better way of doing this operation ?
Thanks in advance for help:)

[topdog]

You can use gparted you grow your partition.

[thecaoticone]

I'm not sure if this is what your looking for, but here is link that might be useful.

They use the "dd" command to mirror the drive and Gparted to resize the partion.


http://forums.techguy.org/hardware/633802-how-migrate-operating-system-bigger.html

[kadi]

hello again
thanks to both of you for your reply.
I did last night use ghost for linux and it took long time to copy,but i didn't
like the result: first it copys 35GB the hole drive and all i have data is 4GB
also after it is done i start the new drive and got this : Missing operating
system ! I coppied hda1 to hdb1 which is the main ?
Thanks again:)

[falko]

hello again
thanks to both of you for your reply.
I did last night use ghost for linux and it took long time to copy,but i didn't
like the result: first it copys 35GB the hole drive and all i have data is 4GB
also after it is done i start the new drive and got this : Missing operating
system ! I coppied hda1 to hdb1 which is the main ?
Thanks again:)
Ghost4Linux creates an image of your installation; you can't start this image. You must first restore it to a HDD, and then you can start it from that HDD.