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new drive reports size of old drive?
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Posted by: eezurg

I installed a new 120 Maxtor in place of a 60 in my series 2. I copied the drive using dd. My setup screen reports my recording time as 63 hours. Did I miss a step? Since dd does an exact copy, did I need to somehow expand the drive?

Posted by: weaknees

What you have is exactly right - and you are right, you need to expand the new drive. Use:

mfsadd -x /dev/hdY

Where Y is the position of the new drive in your PC. It'll be almost instantaneous, and you can pop it back in your TiVo and see the extra space.

Michael