How to copy multi-partition installation (MS and Linux) to new disk drive?

[Chris Green]

On Sat, Oct 24, 2020 at 05:20:32PM +0100, Colin Law wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Oct 2020 at 17:08, Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
> > ..
> > How?  :-)
> >
> > I.e. do you create a bootable Clonezilla USB stick and boot from that
> > on 'the laptop' or do you install it on another system to which you
> > connect both the 'old' and the 'new' laptop drives?
> >
> 
> Whichever is most convenient.  You could boot off a stick on the
> laptop and clone the image as a compressed fileset onto the drive of a
> connected machine (via ssh), then install the new disc on the laptop
> and use clonezilla to restore from the image onto the new disc.  That
> saves having to plug the discs into another machine.  Or you could
> plug them into the other machine and run it locally there which might
> be quicker as it doesn't have to go across the network.  Clonezilla
> only clones used bits of the disc so the amount of time it takes
> depends on the amount of data not the partition sizes.
> 
OK, thanks, I'll probably go the 'copy out to image across network'
and then copy back to the new drive.  It really doesn't matter if it
takes a long time.

-- 
Chris Green