-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday, 2009-04-25 at 20:55 -0400, James Knott wrote:
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.
Me too. But, as there was not Ghost and PM in the Linux world, I've changed my methods. Well, there is a ghost for Linux now, but I find it cumbersome compared to the commercial program. Anyway, those commercial tools don't do a "dd" type of copy and then resize. The new copy is created on the fly with the new properties if the program understands (ie, supports) the format. PM can be very slow when moving partitions on the same HD. So, nowdays I do my "imaging" in Linux via rsync instead. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkn0ObkACgkQtTMYHG2NR9XRfACdGInOgpeBNY6CQCJ5hHEfDc/8 QOQAoIZTuGwayy9GIPTRNZQuzYPCRVNn =d97e -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org