I am using Debian Linux Squeeze. My 400G harddrive is presenting a lot of 'UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCIES' across all partitions. (orphaned inodes mostly). Coupled with this there was screen freezing, and unusual 'unable to write' messages. This has happened several times. Each time a manual fsck fixed it.
The second time that it happened, in order to get a quick replacement I was only able locally to get a 2T harddrive.
I have a back up of the 400G drive. My question is, can I partition the 2T, with larger partitions;or do the partitions have to match what is on the 400G?

How do you intend to do the restore? if you are doing a dd, just do the dd and then resize the partitions and the filesystem.

For example:
http://www.howtoforge.com/linux_resi...xt3_partitions
(adjust to match whatever filesystem you are using)

you might need to reinstall grub after resize.

I have a tar of each partition (/home /etc /local /var /mail /root etc..
I plan to extract each tar into its perspective location.

Make the partitions any size that suits - preferably not smaller than the originals ....

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Thank You all.