From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10682 invoked by alias); 6 Nov 2011 17:16:15 -0000 Received: (qmail 10671 invoked by uid 22791); 6 Nov 2011 17:16:14 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from nm34-vm7.bullet.mail.ne1.yahoo.com (HELO nm34-vm7.bullet.mail.ne1.yahoo.com) (98.138.229.87) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with SMTP; Sun, 06 Nov 2011 17:16:00 +0000 Received: from [98.138.90.55] by nm34.bullet.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 06 Nov 2011 17:15:59 -0000 Received: from [98.138.89.199] by tm8.bullet.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 06 Nov 2011 17:15:59 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by omp1057.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 06 Nov 2011 17:15:59 -0000 Received: (qmail 97025 invoked from network); 6 Nov 2011 17:15:59 -0000 X-Yahoo-SMTP: ycweUreswBCK.d0cygTP5tXwHncbOU7YVeVfIxOQoyRMI2IuIKLmUqE- Received: from [192.168.10.168] (lmh_users-groups@71.232.178.51 with plain) by smtp114.biz.mail.mud.yahoo.com with SMTP; 06 Nov 2011 09:15:59 -0800 PST Message-ID: <4EB6C0CC.8090101@molconn.com> Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2011 17:16:00 -0000 From: LMH User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20110928 Firefox/7.0.1 SeaMonkey/2.4.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Copying HDD to another HDD References: <20111106103720.GF23597@mrvideo.vidiot.com> <4EB69788.5020503@molconn.com> <20111106143533.GQ23597@mrvideo.vidiot.com> <4EB6AB46.5060109@gmail.com> <20111106170313.GV23597@mrvideo.vidiot.com> In-Reply-To: <20111106170313.GV23597@mrvideo.vidiot.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2011-11/txt/msg00109.txt.bz2 I don't know if this is what you are going to try, but if you change the of the partition on the src drive to something small enough to fit on the new drive, you can use clonezilla to clone the partition instead of the whole drive. Just make the partition on the new drive the same size or a bit larger. Just to be safe, I would copy off all the data files from the old drive that you can to a backup somewhere. You should be able to do the with a gparted CD. LMH Mike Brown wrote: > On Sun, Nov 06, 2011 at 11:44:06PM +0800, KHMan wrote: >> Some random notes. fsarchiver also allows for flexibility on size. > > I'm downloading the iso for SystemRescueCD, which contains fsarchiver. > > I just might be able to use fsarchiver to do the trick. > > Thanks for the tip. > > MB -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple