On Sat, 25 Apr 2009 20:55:58 -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.
Arguably, though, with partitions it understands, Ghost does partition management and then file-by-file rather than a sector-by-sector clone (unless you explicitly tell it to do so). That's one of the reasons Ghost is as fast as it is. Jim -- Jim Henderson Please keep on-topic replies on the list so everyone benefits -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org