Re: [PLUG] How best to replace old drive with new drive

[Matthew Rosewarne <mrosewarne@inoutbox.com>]

On Friday 19 October 2007, Greg Lopp wrote:
> You are correct, but then he has an exact duplicate of the old drive and a
> whole bunch of empty space because the new drive is larger....but making
> use of that unused space might be an easier problem to solve than getting
> grub to work that first time
'
While it might have been the only way to copy a Windows system, drive imaging 
isn't really a good wa to copy a Linux system.  Copying the files over is 
overwhelmingly faster than making a bit-for-bit copy of an entire disk, much 
of it empty space.  It's also better to let the new filesystem to place the 
files, which should increase its performance.

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