changing a drive

Gene Heskett gheskett at wdtv.com
Fri Aug 24 08:40:52 UTC 2012


On Friday 24 August 2012 04:39:01 Ric Moore did opine:

> On 08/24/2012 01:36 AM, Nils Kassube wrote:
> > Tim Hanson wrote:
> >> Now I have a new, larger usb drive on which I would like to copy
> >> /home.  I am accustomed to another distro that has a graphical
> >> partition manager which gets the UUID set up properly and takes care
> >> of all the details.  I have seen the disk utility provided with
> >> Ubuntu and I don't see a partition manager.  Where do I find it?
> > 
> > Try gparted (ftom the package with the same name), it should do the
> > job.
> 
> I was about to ask the same question. gparted is kinda brass knuckles.
> Is there something a little bit "kinder" for an old fart? Thanx! Ric

I always use it, its the one disk tool that has never lied to me.

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