Transferring my install to new computer

[William Scott Lockwood III]

On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 11:10 AM, compdoc <compdoc at hotrodpc.com> wrote:
> 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.

You could write all 0's to the drive, let it do the copy to an image
file, and the re-sparse that file so that it's not actually taking up
the unused space.


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Regards,
W. Scott Lockwood