Transferring my install to new computer

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>> That's true, but surely any vaguely smart filesystem-imaging tool 
>> will only copy occupied space?
>
> A filesystem imaging tool would be expected to copy the filesystem 
> which includes the 'empty' space[0]. If you're only interested in the 
> extant files you'd normally use a file copy program.

Clonezilla ignores the empty space and you end up with an image that's only
as large as the amount of space used by the files. However, clonezilla
cannot do this with partitions created using LVM. In that case, its forced
to do a bit-copy which creates an image the size of the device being imaged.


That's actually a large reason of why I switched from Centos to Ubuntu - no
LVM used in the install process.