<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 9:09 PM, Olwe Bottorff <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:galanolwe@yahoo.com">galanolwe@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><br></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">I'm doing this
because I just wanted to get some practice in for what my real task is, which is to clone one machine's drive onto another new machine. My original Ubuntu 11.01 machine has a 160 gb drive, the target will be 250 gb. I'll put the target into the external caddy and run pretty much the same thing again:</font></div>
<div><br></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I use clonezilla to clone drives. I applaud your DIY enthusiasm, and you certainly can get there with dd - but I'd still point you towards clonezilla. </div>
<div><br></div><div>-Rob</div><div> </div></div>