<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 7:17 AM, Simon Hobson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:linux@thehobsons.co.uk" target="_blank">linux@thehobsons.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Or you can use --one-file-system. It will back up just that filesystem including mount points for all the submounts. If you have a /home partition you will have to back that up separately.<br>
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Yes indeed - that's the joy of all this, so many different ways to do it so there's bound to be something you're happy with. Personally I prefer to backup 'the whole system', others may prefer to do it by filesystem.<div class="im HOEnZb">
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Simon Hobson</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Why not just use CloneZilla to clone the disk to different sized drives? It has that capability. It will only copy used space. Then when it's on the new disk, you can use GParted to expand the partition. Done and done. </div>
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