will this allow the new drive to boot?
If you don't mind spending some cash, the latest versions of Paragon
Hard Drive Manager (6) and Paragon Partition Manager (7) understand
ext2/3/ReiserFS.
I just did an operation like you are planning over the weekend using
Paragon's HDM.
I was able to copy over the Reiser and ext partitions, resize them, and
after that a boot repair did the trick.
I have several Linux distros installed, so my fix was a bit more
complicated, but still easy.
For the first distro, the rescue trick worked fine and reinstalled the
bootloader (I have the various bootloaders installed in the boot sector
of the root partitions for each distro, and chain to them.) Distros
installed in higher partitions wouldn't repair this way. You can either
use a live CD based distro and mount the affected partition, then chroot
to it and reinstall the bootloader, or boot the distros install CD and
"upgrade" it (this will move right to the post-install configuration as
there is nothing to install, and allow you to reinstall the bootloader.
The entire move went really smooth.
I haven't used ghost for Linux, so don't know if it can do a partition
re-size, or just a direct same-size copy.
Rick Kunath
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