> Does anyone has experiences with gparted? I have no experience with Parted Magic, but I have used a lot the Gparted live CD (http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php). No idea on how the two compare.
As for gparted (which is a lot more than a gui for parted), I have used it on ext4 a couple of times and it managed to complete the copy without destroying anything, so I'd say it works. On the other hand, I copied *lots* of ext3 and ntfs partitions, and it never failed me. BTW, by default gparted does *not* do sector-by-sector partition copies. In my opinion this is a much better approach if you do not need a bit-exact copy of the original (e.g. if you're doing forensics or debugging filesystems), but in the end it's up to you. andrea
