---- On Wed, 28 Jan 2015 17:08:06 -0800 Yasha Karant<[email protected]> wrote ----
My next approach -- before disassembly -- will be to try clonezilla or the equivalent. As I understand clonezilla, I boot from the clonezilla dvd and then clone from source to target.Does clonezilla permit cloning over a USB3 interface, or only a USB 2 (that I also can use)? We are using ext4 partitions. Does anyone have a preferred utility over clonezilla? Any advice would be appreciated. Yasha Karant Hi Yasha, I adore clonezilla. It just works. You boot off a CD (not DVD). The ISO also will create a decent flash drive. I used Fedora Liveusb-creator, which does run under SL 6.x: https://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator/ I have done both USB2 and USB3. They must be plugged in before booting. Also, the target disk must be the same size or bigger than the source. When I have had smaller targets, I have had to go in with Xfce Fedora Live CD and reduce the partition size of the source with gparted first. Clonezilla will give you the exact same partition size that you had to start with. Use the same gparted to get the rest of your larger partition back. I got to help you for once. Cool. :-) Good luck, -T Always do an fsck (or "chkdsk /f" if ntfs) before attempting to clone. I have done fat, ntfs, ext4 so far, but not xfs.
