imaging a drive to replace it

[bogstad-e+AXbWqSrlAAvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org (Bill Bogstad)]

On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 3:57 PM, Tim Callaghan <tmcallaghan-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Are there products to replace a drive in a Linux box by imaging it to a new
> hard drive? ?I've used Acronis True Image plenty of times on my windows
> machines but never had the need (until now) to do it for linux.

I think something like partimage http://www.partimage.org would work
well for this.

System Rescue distributions (such as http://www.sysresccd.org) include
partimage.
Partimage doesn't do resizing directly, but you can use other tools to
resize the partition after the transfer...

Bill Bogstad

> Thanks,
>
> Tim
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