Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2008 mails)

[James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Carlos E. R. wrote:
> > > That procedure is full of problems in the road.
> > Actually gparted does the job quite well and quickly.  I have even moved
> > partitions to make a lower partition bigger.  IMO, gparted has become
> > one of the best partitioning tools.
>
> Well, that's interesting. But frankly, copying files directly to a new
> (or same) partition layout would be faster and easier. I don't see any
> gain, except to experiment.
I guess you've never done any disk imaging.  That's common in the
corporate world, where you create a standard image for users.  The image
is copied from a server to a hard drive and then resized to fit the
disk.  In past lives, I've used both Ghost and Partition Magic to do that.


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