I would like to clone my 359 Gb SATA drive to a smaller 120 Gb EIDE drive. The larger drive is only 19% used (62 of 359 Gb) according to df. Yes, I'm using Linux -- actually Fedora Core 5.
I know from reading the g4u documentation that trying to clone a larger sized drive to a smaller one is likely to run into problems. I am wondering if I can work around this. Here is what I propose to do. Write zeroes to the unused space in the larger hard drive, just as documented on the g4u website: dd if=/dev/zero of=/0bits bs=20971520 # bs=20m rm /0bits Install the smaller EIDE drive Run g4u release 2.3. This should give me only a 62 Gb image on the 120 Gb hard drive. Am I correct in thinking this? Thanks for any help! Bob Cochran Greenbelt, Maryland, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ g4u-help mailing list g4u-help@feyrer.de https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help
