Native backup/restore partition options

[Grant M.]

Scott Ehrlich wrote:
> Now, to prevent having to reinstall CentOS (or any variant of linux for 
> that matter) time after time on other systems, what would be the best 
> way to preserve the [linux] installation I've completed, and possibly 
> restore it to different-sized partitions/drives?

I've looked into this, and there is at least one utility that I believe 
will do this. It's called Ghost for Linux (g4l). It may just use dd to 
make the clone however, so I am not sure if it will do exactly what you 
are asking, but I vaguely recall reading something that said it was 
possible to restore to a drive of a different size. Here's the FreshMeat 
link:
http://freshmeat.net/projects/g4l/
Grant M.
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