RE: [TCLUG:5964] completely irrelevant question...

["Jim Walters" <jwalters@pclink.com>]

I would check the documentation, but the last time I used DriveCopy, it
would only expand, not make partitions smaller.  The reason for that is that
they first copy the entire partition over onto the new drive and then change
the size.  Unless they have changed their architecture, that still probably
holds true.  A potential work-around might be to shrink the source partition
before copying it, but I've never tried that.

YMMV,

jwalters

-----Original Message-----
From: Carl Patten [mailto:cpatte@trimodalinc.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 1999 8:23 AM
To: tclug-list@listserv.real-time.com
Subject: RE: [TCLUG:5964] completely irrelevant question...



If you want painless transfers, and don't mind paying $30, use DriveCopy.
All it does is copy your partitions from an old hard drive to a new one.  If
the new drive is bigger, it expands the partitions proportionally to fill
the available space.  My older version supports Linux partitions but doesn't
expand them.  It boots off a floppy, so the OS you're running does not
matter.

--
Carl Patten
Systems Administrator
Trimodal Inc.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Serge M. Egelman [mailto:serge@egel2.med.umn.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 1999 11:58 PM
> To: tclug-list@listserv.real-time.com
> Subject: [TCLUG:5964] completly irrelevant question...
>
>
> hello,
>     This question is completly off topic, but I don't know where else to
> turn.  Anyway, I just got a new disk for my NT box, what's the
> most painless
> way of moving the root fs onto the new disk?  I've heard of
> imaging programs,
> but I assume this only works if the drives are physically the same and you
> want them partitioned the same as well?
>
> thanks,
>
> Serge
>
>
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