Migrate Ubuntu to a bigger disk on a laptop

[Asif Iqbal]

On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 6:22 PM, Brian McKee <brian.mckee at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Asif Iqbal <vadud3 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi All
>>
>> I have ubuntu 8.10 running on my laptop. It is a 40gb disk. I want to
>> upgrade it to 250gb drive.
>
> Your steps will work - let me make an alternative suggestion though...
>
> Backup your home folder to another machine on the network as you wanted to.
>
> Install mondo 2.2.8 from the mondo website.
>
> Backup your laptop to cd's or a network share

I will give that a try from work. I have lot bigger than 40G, my
laptop disk size, nfs folder there.

>
> Install the bigger harddrive and restore using your mondoarchive cd(s)
>
> Much simpler.  :-)
>
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