[ale] a disk is just a disk?

[lists at serioustechnology.com (Geoffrey)]

Jerry Yu wrote:
> I used gparted live cd to copy/resize a small EIDE disk (60G) to a bigger
> EIDE disk (120G).  The new disk was in an external USB enclosure.
> gparted saw 60G as hda and 120G as sdb. It successfully copied & grew all
> five partitions (4 linux ext3 & 1 fat32).
> 
> Now I am ready to take this EIDE disk out of the USB enclosure & to replace
> the smaller EIDE disk. / & MBR  & GRUB is on a separate SATA disk (sda)
> 
> would the net changes on the new disk differ, somehow,  when parted did all
> its magic thinking it handled a SCSI disk instead of a EIDE disk?

I don't think gparted has anything to do with that.  Once you put the 
drive in the computer, boot it with gparted and the partitions will no 
longer show up as scsi.

I would expect that swaping eide for eide will permit you to simply boot 
afterwards, as long as you're correct in that mbr/grub is on a separate 
drive.

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey

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