On Wed, 20 Sep 2023 21:28:29 -0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > > you may as well then restore from that backup. I'm sure it will be a > > lot quicker than GParted's moving all the data around. > > That depends on how long it takes me to decide on tar vs. rsync and > what the appropriate options are. After 40 years using Unix, you'd > think I'd know that (or have it written down somewhere). :)
If you written everything down, after 40 years you'd have so many bits of paper you wouldn't be able to find anything ;-) > That said, I think I will go with the backup, repartition, restore > method. It's been many, many years since I used GParted, and I can > probably have the whole job done from the command-line before I can > figure out how the GParted GUI works. :) -- Neil Bothwick The facts, although interesting, are usually irrelevant.
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