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From: barnabyh on 29 Jan 2010 12:27
On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:05:15 -0500
Lew Pitcher <lpitcher(a)teksavvy.com> wrote:

>
> I'm moving from partitions on a multi-hundred Gigabyte drive to
> partitions on a Terabyte drive. Ghosting my existing installation
> would waste a lot of that new drive, both with the potential
> cylinder-size mismatches, and with the hundreds of Gb left over.
>

With Clonezilla you can choose to expand your partitions relative to
the size of the new drive, so you would not waste any space.

> Additionally, if I clone the current system, I'll still be running
> Slackware 12.1. I've got this shiny new Slackware 13.0 DVD that
> I /could/ install instead. Besides, if I left the system as Slackware
> 12.1, I'd have to upgrade to 13.0 sooner or later. I'd rather get all
> the upgrades out of the way now, then take the system out again and
> again to upgrade later.

Well yeah, probably better to get 13 on it now. IMO 12.x was good, 13
is even better. A matter of opinion of course.


Barnabyh

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everything it collectively touches. Disney is what the public wants.
NASCAR is what the public wants. Windows is what the public wants.
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