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<body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>Another question, really, but very close... If I should rather post to a different link, please let me know.</div><div><br></div><div>I want tp backup the Win7 system partition that came with my laptop, reduce it a whole lot and turn about 100GB of space over to dedicated Linux use. GParted doesn't want to touch it currently, because in the process of shrinking it earlier to make space available for the present Lubuntu installation, something apparently went wrong with some parameter with the result that while I can acces everything there and still boot into Windows, I cannot resize it.</div><div><br></div><div>It has about 110GB of win7 installation and data, plus about 130GB of unused space. Much of the data is already backed up elswhere.</div><div><br></div><div>So my plan is to backup the entire bootable Win7 partition onto an external USB drive which already contains a backup of my Linux operations, try reformatting the partition as Win32, then try shrinking it by 100GB and re-installing the backup onto it. If successful then I'll remove some of the data backups and shrink it some more. If needs be, I could just scrub the entire disk, set up a Win32 partition of say 150GB for the Win7 restoration, use the remainder of the disk for a new Lubuntu14.04 installation and live happily ever after.</div><div><br></div><div>So I have two main problems: (i) what (Lubuntu) package should I use to backup the Win7 bootable partition that will allow me to restore it onto a smaller clean partition? There was no recovery CD when I bought the laptop... is it too late to make one from the recovery partition that it came with, and if so how?</div><div>(ii) should I plan for having to erase and repartition the entire disk?</div><div><br></div><div>Actually, I keep the Win7 partition merely so that every six months or so I can have the pleasure of catching up with all the Window upgrades (aka anti-virus measures) overnight; but I'm prepared to do this, and to give over let's say 30GB of the HDU, in order to have A working Windows boot partition Just In Case Wine doesn't help in a particular situation..</div><div><br></div><div>Any advice, even comments, would be welcome.</div><div><br></div><div>Basil</div><div><br></div><div>Pretoria, South Africa</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>On Wed, 14 May 2014 21:37:25 +0200, James McCoy <spaceknight2@hotmail.com> wrote:<br></div><br><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0.80ex; border-left: #0000FF 2px solid; padding-left: 1ex">
I been using Ubuntu (now running 13.10) for some time and know it
comes with backup software like Deja Dup already included. I just
started learning about Lubuntu 14.04 and plan to install it in my HP
64 bit laptop and wonder does it also have built-in backup software
or do I need to install it?<br>
<br>
If I need to install backup software - does anyone have suggestions
for backup software for Lubuntu?<br>
<br>
Ubuntu has "Ubuntu Tweak" - is there similar software for Lubuntu? I
heard about "Lubuntu Tweak" but do not know anything about it. What
is it like? Will Ubuntu Tweak work on Lubuntu?<br>
<br>
Is there any kind of listings/directories of software and/or
applications for Lubuntu in particular? I know of websites "Appnr"
and "Linux App Finder" - but they have apps for Ubuntu in general. I
am looking for lightweight versions of Ubuntu apps (example -
lightweight version of firewall "Firestarter" or lightweight version
of video editing software Kino/Kdenlive).<br>
<br>
James<br>
Indiana / USA<br>
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