Boniforti Flavio wrote:
> Hy Bob...
> 
> [cut]
> 
>> Now, for those who will ask detail question about this, I 
>> have condensed my description to simplify the answer. My 
>> suggestion is that you need to learn about clonezilla live cd 
>> and use it to create this bare metal image. I have found this 
>> to be a simple solution for my computers. (My daughter's 
>> laptop & desktop, my wife's company work laptop, as well as 
>> my laptop and desktop. BTW, my wife's company IT people what 
> 
> 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.

Clonezilla can go from smaller to bigger partitions (basically a copy, then 
resize), but not bigger to smaller.  Ghost is probably the best at that for 
Windows but it's not free.  On linux just use tar and install grub again if it 
is a boot disk.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com


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