[TriLUG] Cloning to a larger HD

[Newcomb, Doug]

Mike,

I would suggest also looking, in the future,  at fsarchiver on the
sysrescueCD.  It allows you to archive different partition types to the
same archive file ( with multithreaded compression) and you can restore to
larger partition sizes.


http://www.fsarchiver.org/Main_Page

http://www.sysresccd.org/SystemRescueCd_Homepage

Doug

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From: Michael Rulison <13miketele at bellsouth.net>
To: <trilug at trilug.org>
Cc:
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2013 17:11:34 -0400
Subject: [TriLUG] Cloning to a larger HD
I wanted to move my dual boot (Ubuntu/Win XP) system from ca. 120 GB to a
500 GB disk (laptop/sata)
Clonezilla froze up in both beginner and expert modes from disk reading
problems beyond the first partition.
dd...... also crumped out; probably operator ignorance.

But EASEUS.EXE, free download for non-business use (downloaded to win xp
partition and then burned to  CD-RW) worked perfectly as a byte-to-byte
transfer. Then I used gparted to expand the partitions to use more of the
500 GB disk.

All seems to have been re-established successfully and every one has some
elbow room.

-- 
Doug Newcomb
USFWS
Raleigh, NC
919-856-4520 ext. 14 doug_newcomb at fws.gov
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