Hi Terry,
The tools I have used for this sort of thing are Clonezilla and GParted.
Clonezilla to copy from one disk to another, and GParted to resize
partitions.
There are live CDs for each, although GParted is in most Linux distros.
So I would do it in two stages, first clone, then resize/move the
partitions.
Clonezilla won't work where the target drive is smaller than the source,
which is a problem I've had with SSDs.
http://www.clonezilla.org/
http://gparted.org/
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Andrew.
On 12/08/2015 13:13, Terry Coles wrote:
Hi,
As you may have gathered from yesterday's error, I obtained a Dell Optiplex
from atechmedia and am now trying to copy my existing software from the old
250Gb hard drive to the 1TB drive in the Optiplex. Here is the setup on the
250GB drive:
sda1 / ext4 38GB
sda2 /home ext4 210GB
sda3 swap swap 4GB
Here is what I'd like to end up with on the new drive:
sda1 / ext4 40GB
sda2 /home ext4 250GB
sda3 swap swap 8GB
I have both discs connected and the partitioner and disk utility programs can
see them OK. (Currently the 250GB drive is mounted at sdb.) I initially
thought I could do this with Redo Backup Live! which I have successfully used
in the past (On Windows boxes). The problem is that although Redo will let me
take an image of individual partitions, it will only restore to a drive not a
partition, so it b******s up the partition table and only lets me copy one
partition.
I then tried booting into Kubuntu Live and copying each disc partition as files
(I'm not sure it will work for the / partition, but thought it worth a try).
The problem is that the discs are mounted read-only and I'm concerned that is
I copy as root, I'll end up with files that are all owned by root in my home
partition.
So to 'clone' these partitions, what is the best approach?
(I'll need to do this all over again when the SSD Drive turns up :-) )
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