But to copy your actual Arch Install on your secondary partition then copy it on the new designated partition can be done (as said by phildg) with a boot CD. I usually use Archie since it have a gui and all kind of tools. Knoppix is much more complete though...
]]>cp, rsync or tar are appropriate. You will only need as much space as your installation takes then.
Any live cd will do, I use slax simply because I have a CD of it on my desk. I suppose you could always use the Arch installation CD, though I doubt it has rsync on it.
]]>Check on your hard disk requirements, I think 30 gig is way over the top. My Arch installs takes less than 1.5 gigs. My desktops have 10 gig hardrives in them, and one is partitioned in half for Arch and Arch64. 5 gig may be cutting it fine if you have kde or gnome installed, but you shouldn't be needing more than 10. Assuming of course you store all your user files on the "Files" partition
]]>Arch - 30gb
Another OS - 30gb
Files - 60gb
Currently:
Arch - 60gb
Files - 60gb
(My first drive has XP in it and I can't partition it.)
]]>I need to backup my entire system and was wondering what is the best way to accomplish this. Basically I will be wiping out my entire hard drive so that I can partition it properly so that I can have different partitions for different OS'es. There's nothing wrong with my Arch install so I was thinking on backing up every file and then when I install Arch again I can then do a mass restore and go back to my same configuration. Please advice.
Why don't you just use qparted to delete the other partitions, then resize your arch partition to have the free space?
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