Re: [BackupPC-users] Bare metal restore
2010-05-11 08:09:53
Boniforti,
You are correct, Clonezilla will not resize a partition. When replacing
a hard drive, I usually get a larger capacity drive, restore and then
resize it with Gparted on a Knoppix live cd.
Bob Wooden
Boniforti Flavio wrote:
> Hy Bob...
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> [cut]
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>> My suggestion is that you need to learn about clonezilla live cd
>> and use it to create this bare metal image.
> One thing that is missing in Clonezilla is the ability to resize imaged
> partitions. If my HDD crashes, I tend to buy the most competitive one in
> terms of "price:size" ratio. If the disk gets bigger, I guess there
> would be "unpartitioned space" left (which would result in unused HDD
> space). On the other hand, on some servers I need to size down, onto a
> smaller disk: that's not feasable with Clonezilla, as for now... Any
> suggestions (without going too much OT)? Eventually also on my email, if
> it'd be OT.
>
> Flavio Boniforti
>
>
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