ghosting linux hardrive

[xaeniac]

I have Linux installed on a 40 gig hard drive, I want to upgrade to a 120 GB drive. Is there a way I can ghost it and Linux see the free space on the 120 GB drive, or will I have to format the unpartitioned space? Also I am dual booting, if I replace the linux drive, will that messup the dual boot selection menu? I know this may be worded confusing, so if you have any questions please ask. Thanks to all who respond.

 

[lansalot]

Some versions of ghost can handle EXT2 and EXT3 filesystems I believe. So if that's what you're on.. read the dox first.

 

[drag]

There are other ways of doing it to. If you are familar with ghost and have a newer version that can handle linux, then it's great.

you can also do stuff like use "dd" command to copy one harddrive to another then resize partitions/directories to fill up the new drive, Or just add new partitions and mount them at a convienent place like /home/ to give your user the extra room. (after copying over the home directory to the new partition.)

Also you can do stuff like booting up in Knoppix copy the OS over (while being carefull to retain permissions and special file types), then remove the old drive, and boot up with the cd again and chroot to the new drive and setup the bootloader manually.

Then there are other ways besides that.

 

[xaeniac]

I have ghost and am not interested in alternatives. Thx for the additional info