It's been a long time since I've done this and I've probably done it in the most complex way. I upgraded my OS drive to a larger drive (old one 60GB, new one 250GB) running Ubuntu 14.04 and used ddrescue to create an image of the old disk and then restore the image onto the new disk. I had to create/restore the image in separate steps because I could only attach one disk at a time to my laptop.
ddrescue -d -r3 /dev/sda os_drive.img create_image.log
ddrescue -f os_drive.img /dev/sda restore_image.log
The system runs fine with the new disk but of course only has 60GB showing up as the capacity. I'm guessing that I need to expand the partition, extend the LVM, then resize my ext4 file system. I'm not sure if that's correct.
I'm more than happy to redo this from scratch using an easier method to copy the disk contents. I am using VirtualBox on my OSX laptop to do the ddrescure with the drives connected one at a time via USB. Another option that I was considering is using Clonezilla.
fdisk:
WARNING: GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected on '/dev/sda'! The util fdisk doesn't support GPT. Use GNU Parted.
Disk /dev/sda: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders, total 488397168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0008035d
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 2048 499711 248832 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 501758 125044735 62271489 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 501760 125044735 62271488 8e Linux LVM
Disk /dev/mapper/nobox--vg-root: 59.5 GB, 59466842112 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7229 cylinders, total 116146176 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000
parted:
Model: ATA Samsung SSD 850 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 488397168s
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 2048s 499711s 497664s primary ext2 boot
2 501758s 125044735s 124542978s extended
5 501760s 125044735s 124542976s logical lvm
Model: Linux device-mapper (linear) (dm)
Disk /dev/mapper/nobox--vg-root: 116146176s
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: loop
Number Start End Size File system Flags
1 0s 116146175s 116146176s ext4
vgdisplay:
VG Name nobox-vg
System ID
Format lvm2
Metadata Areas 1
Metadata Sequence No 3
VG Access read/write
VG Status resizable
MAX LV 0
Cur LV 2
Open LV 2
Max PV 0
Cur PV 1
Act PV 1
VG Size 59.38 GiB
PE Size 4.00 MiB
Total PE 15202
Alloc PE / Size 15202 / 59.38 GiB
Free PE / Size 0 / 0
VG UUID LJMh7v-rslr-ec79-MCxL-RoqQ-zJ9n-0CNfq3
pvdisplay:
PV Name /dev/sda5
VG Name nobox-vg
PV Size 59.39 GiB / not usable 4.00 MiB
Allocatable yes (but full)
PE Size 4.00 MiB
Total PE 15202
Free PE 0
Allocated PE 15202
PV UUID qYZ8cg-RzrA-Dv3s-pSkZ-MZY6-MJsa-a59XCb
lvdisplay:
LV Path /dev/nobox-vg/root
LV Name root
VG Name nobox-vg
LV UUID TavnN5-q5YR-jeXh-ceY9-rCYD-mjFR-Cv645y
LV Write Access read/write
LV Creation host, time ,
LV Status available
# open 1
LV Size 55.38 GiB
Current LE 14178
Segments 1
Allocation inherit
Read ahead sectors auto
- currently set to 256
Block device 252:0
