Backup & restore of FC3 partition/disk?

[jim lawrence]

On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 18:15:06 +0100, Franco <primo at ischianet.com> wrote:
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> Max L. Eidswick ha scritto:
> > This is a resend of this earlier message – I could not find it or any
> > replies in the archives …
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> > Hi, All – I have FC3 on a removable disk in my ThinkPad a31p (a 60GB).
> > I need to use that disk for some other testing and do not want to lose
> > my FC3 setup.  I am sure it is not using more that 15GB and I have an
> > extra 20GB that I would like to use for FC3 instead.
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> > Is there any EASY way for me to backup my FC3 disk/partition and restore
> > it on another disk?  The first disk is larger, but the target disk is
> > large enough to handle the FC3 space used …
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> > Thanks,
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> > *Max L. Eidswick*
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> Hi, for me the best way is to install another copy of FC3 on a smaller
> HD with the same partition and then use rsync to copy the old hd on the new.

if you have anything like Ghost, you can do that as well 

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