Success - Migrate Laptop using Clonezilla

fukawi2 · 2008-06-24 05:42:27

OK, so I quit my job recently... One of the "perks" was a company laptop (Dell D610), which the $!*@#$ wouldn't let me buy off them when I quit.

Enter Clonezilla... Take an image of the laptop, then boot from a Rescue CD and...

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda

(Okay, I didn't have to do that part, but they were being difficult )

Have a quick surf around eBay, picked up another Dell D610, with upgraded CPU, double the RAM and 50% bigger HDD than my old laptop, for AU$100 less than I was offering to buy it from my old employer! Schweet!

Boot Clonezilla, restore image and reboot... Almost everything is sweet. X didn't want to start for some reason, but a quick `xorg -configure` to regenerate my xorg.conf file and I'm back up and running...

Now, I just have to resize my /home partition to take up the extra space on the bigger hard drive... Not sur ehow easy that's going to be with JFS.

Thanks Linux, ArchLinux and Clonezilla!

JeremyTheWicked · 2008-06-24 08:42:31

If extending the home partition ends up difficult you can always make a new partion and mount it as a subpartition of your home (e.g. /home/yourusername/multimedia or whatever takes up a lot of space)

fukawi2 · 2008-06-24 23:29:03

Ended up being pretty easy... Clonezilla extended my Windows partition to take up the extra space, so boot to GParted Live CD, resize Windows partition, move /boot and Extended partition to the left, then expand my /home partition. GParted automatically expanded the filesystem as well as the partition in the process. Took about 90 minutes all up to move the partitions and data around

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Success - Migrate Laptop using Clonezilla

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Re: Success - Migrate Laptop using Clonezilla

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