walt <w41...@gmail.com> [10-06-07 20:04]: > On 06/07/2010 08:48 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > >Does anyone has experiences with gparted? > >Is it recommended (I need support for ext4)? > > I've used it many times for DOS and ext3. The program says it supports > ext4 > but I've never tried ext4 so I can't comment. > > Gparted is just a gui front-end for parted, which copies individual > partitions > but not whole disks. If you have only one partition then it should be > equivalent, > I think, to copying the disk. >
There are three additional questions for me. Since I now have successfully copied one disk to another I have to decide whether I simply repartition the first and copy the contents from the second to the first or to gparted the first one. I tend to do the first thing, since it seems difficult to me to check, whether the result of processing the disk with gparted is correct. Therefore the three questions for me are: 1) Gparted or repartitioning? 2) What is the most efficient way of copying the contents of one partition to another one on per-file-basis, which preserves as much as possible of file attributes including the file times? 3) Excluding typos and other fatal errors: Will it will always preserve and leave intact the contents (for example) of the first four (1,2,3,6) partitions when repartitioning as follows: Old ==> New 1 100M 100M 2 100G 100G 3 100G 100G 5 extended extended 6 100G 100G 7 200G 100G 8 300G 200G 9 400G 350G 10 ---- 250G ??? Excluding any kind of experience, which I do not have in this last case I tend to say "Yes" ... but ... Thank you very much in advance for any help! Best regards, mcc -- Please don't send me any Word- or Powerpoint-Attachments unless it's absolutely neccessary. - Send simply Text. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html In a world without fences and walls nobody needs gates and windows.
