Joel Gomberg wrote: > On 10/08/2009 09:48 AM, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Is there an easy way to transfer a system from one drive (holding boot, >> swap, lvm partitions, in the default F11 layout) to a different hard >> drive, if the new drive is smaller? >> >> If the new drive is larger, dd could be used in a fairly straightforward >> way. >> Tools like parted work better - they only copy the data on file systems they know about. But they do not handle LVM yet. They can only do a full copy - about like using dd to copy a partition. >> However, I want to try replacing a 160 GB hard drive with an Intel 80 GB >> solid-state drive, just for fun... > > Clonezilla worked like a charm for me, but I was going from a smaller > drive to a larger one. I believe that it can handle your situation. > It does not handle changing the size of LVM partitions. So you are probably going to be stuck with resizing them first. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
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