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#1 2010-09-11 20:27:28
- duke11235
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Best Way to Clone Drive?
What would be the best way to clone a drive. Arch has worked so well I might drastically shrink my Windows 7 partition, but would like to restore an exact copy of this install. Please note it's installed in an encrypted lvm group, which might complicate things.
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#2 2010-09-11 20:40:52
- Inxsible
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Re: Best Way to Clone Drive?
dd?
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#3 2010-09-11 21:12:31
- duke11235
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Re: Best Way to Clone Drive?
Could dd allow a smaller partition to be put on a larger one?
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#4 2010-09-11 21:43:38
- codycarey
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Re: Best Way to Clone Drive?
So you have Windows 7 and Arch on the same disk. Arch is installed on an encrypted partition with LVM on top of that. Your goal is to shrink your Windows 7 partition and increase your Arch partition(s)?
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#5 2010-09-11 21:52:52
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Re: Best Way to Clone Drive?
Could dd allow a smaller partition to be put on a larger one?
you could always resize the partition after the fact by using gparted or something.
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#6 2010-09-12 11:45:16
- quigybo
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Re: Best Way to Clone Drive?
Clonezilla, definitely. It runs as a live cd/usb, so you can easily clone existing installs. It has a bunch of easy to use dialogs to clone drives and partitions to devices and images, local and over a network etc. (yeah i used it recently and it saved me 
). I have no experience with LVM, but according to the website it seems to support LVM2.
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