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b9k9kiwi
July 9th, 2008, 11:55 PM
I am currently running Ubuntu on a purpose built system with a 160 gig (pre-loved) sata drive. I plan, sooner or later, to upgrade to a larger new main drive (and, probably, retain the 160 gig as a second drive).

What is best as a strategy - cloning (can it be done in Linux?) or simply reinstalling afresh? Although the latter isn't unappealing as Ubuntu installation is so straightforward.

I have only cloned one system before, Windows XP Pro on my partners system using Acronis True Image, which was spectacularly unsuccessful.

Pumalite
July 9th, 2008, 11:59 PM
This might help:
http://www.clonezilla.org/

mgmiller
July 9th, 2008, 11:59 PM
I haven't tried this yet, but I think a gparted livecd will do this without problems. Here is a link to their site:

http://gparted.sourceforge.net/