Yo! Free way to resize the drive! Do the copies: dd if=/dev/disk# of=/Users/you/AppleTV.img bs=1024k (Copy original AppleTV HD to image) dd if=/Users/you/AppleTV.img of=/dev/disk# bs=1024k
Place the larger drive in the AppleTV as is. Let it boot up, then do a factory restore. It will use all available free space for the Media partition. 8-)
Yes, it definitely deletes all media. But it's only a resync. Small price to pay to save $35-$45.
Well, no matter what, on the dd, it has to copy sector for sector, so it will still copy all blocks whether used or empty. Although, if you only had to copy only the first two parts, yeah it would be much faster.
Off to work, but I'll try it tonight. This baby in't going into the living rom till I've maxamized the space, but I will be considering temp and power. So I'm off ot researching the best drive for same temp, power draw, and best speed/size. I'm a bit concerned about faster/larger drives and taking down the lifespan of the AppleTV.
Anyone know what this thing draws for power, and what it has for wattage out? If we conect usb devices eventually, remember that it will take a big power draw as well.
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Eponymous @ Mar 26th 2007 9:31AM
Yo! Free way to resize the drive!
Do the copies:
dd if=/dev/disk# of=/Users/you/AppleTV.img bs=1024k (Copy original AppleTV HD to image)
dd if=/Users/you/AppleTV.img of=/dev/disk# bs=1024k
Place the larger drive in the AppleTV as is. Let it boot up, then do a factory restore. It will use all available free space for the Media partition. 8-)
Enjoy!!
Ben @ Mar 26th 2007 9:29AM
Wow, that is a cool trick, does this erase everything you synced already?
If so wouldn't it be faster to tell DD to only copy the other partitions when copying the image to the new drive?
So if gpt show disk2 returned
start size index contents
0 1 PMBR
1 1 Pri GPT header
2 32 Pri GPT table
34 6
40 69632 1 GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
69672 819200 2 GPT part - 5265636F-7665-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
888872 1843200 3 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
2732072 75408048 4 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
78140120 7
78140127 32 Sec GPT table
78140159 1 Sec GPT header
The command to copy everything but the media partition would be.
dd if=/Users/you/AppleTV.img count=2732071 of=/dev/disk# bs=1024k
This would only copy the blocks before the start of the Media parition 4?
Eponymous @ Mar 26th 2007 5:40PM
Yes, it definitely deletes all media. But it's only a resync. Small price to pay to save $35-$45.
Well, no matter what, on the dd, it has to copy sector for sector, so it will still copy all blocks whether used or empty. Although, if you only had to copy only the first two parts, yeah it would be much faster.
Off to work, but I'll try it tonight. This baby in't going into the living rom till I've maxamized the space, but I will be considering temp and power. So I'm off ot researching the best drive for same temp, power draw, and best speed/size. I'm a bit concerned about faster/larger drives and taking down the lifespan of the AppleTV.
Anyone know what this thing draws for power, and what it has for wattage out? If we conect usb devices eventually, remember that it will take a big power draw as well.