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>> I have finished running a test clone of the XP partition >> using the latest clonezilla live utility to an external USB >> drive. It created a series of image data files that total >> just under 7 GB. > Basically, you can clone a partition to one of equal or larger size. > But, after you clone, you can resize the filesystem. One of the issues I > see discussed often is the resizing of partitions or LVM logical drives. > In both cases you need 2 separate operations. Some tools do both. In > Linux, you can use things like resize2fs to resize a Linux ext2/3 > filesystem. Thanks Jerry. I hadn't thought of resizing after the system is in place. I usually use gparted for my resizing which I'm sure is just a wrapper around the usual file system tools. If the clone of xp works I will then remove all the thinkvantage tools and will be able to shrink that much smaller than it is now. Fedora will be easier to do. We'll see anyway. Jim K-R
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