imaging a drive to replace it

[tmcallaghan-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org (Tim Callaghan)]

Just to keep it simple (I don't need the extra space even if I buy a  
larger hard drive) will partimage do the copy operation easily?

Tim

On Mar 12, 2009, at 5:00 PM, Bill Bogstad <bogstad-e+AXbWqSrlAAvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> 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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