Transferring my install to new computer

[Liam Proven]

On 24 June 2012 17:12, William Scott Lockwood III <vladinator at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

I could be wrong, but my impression is that sparse-file disk images in
VMs grow when space is used but do not shrink again when it is freed.

In any event, that would not help Compdoc, whose problem concerns the
Logical Volume Management disk format, rather than any form of virtual
machine.

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