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Dude, the Dell is here!!! |
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On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 9:08 AM, Robert Bridge <robert@××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 22:39:17 -0800 |
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> "Kevin O'Gorman" <kogorman@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> Dude, I'm getting a Dell! |
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>> It's gonna come with Vista, and I have to use it that way for work. |
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>> But I want to |
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>> put a Linux partition on there. So I need to repartition. |
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>> Having learned to be cautious, I'm wondering if there is a good |
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>> open-source way to back up about 300GB of NTFS such that I can |
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>> restore fairly smoothly. It has to be fairly fast, so file-by-file |
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>> copies are probably going to suck. I'll have 100MB |
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>> ethernet to a big-enough drive. |
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>> Then, I'm wondering about partitioning tools. I can use |
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>> PartitionMagic 7.0. I've heard |
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>> of gparted, but not used it. Any advice? |
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> Um, I thought Vista could resize it's own partitions... |
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Maybe. I'll look into that next, because I'm hoping that will keep |
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me from messing |
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up the existing stuff too much. It's not obvious to me how I should |
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repartition. The |
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current setup looks like this to fdisk, and I'm a bit nervous about |
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the meaning and use |
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of partition sda5. If I add anything, I either have to destroy it, |
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renumber it or move it. |
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Command (m for help): p |
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Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes |
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255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders |
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Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes |
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Disk identifier: 0x92cd386f |
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Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System |
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/dev/sda1 1 5 40131 de Dell Utility |
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/dev/sda2 6 1280 10240000 7 HPFS/NTFS |
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Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary. |
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/dev/sda3 * 1280 30075 231295156 7 HPFS/NTFS |
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/dev/sda4 30075 30402 2620416 f W95 Ext'd (LBA) |
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/dev/sda5 30076 30402 2619392 dd Unknown |
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Command (m for help): q |
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> Also, if it's a new machine, use the re-install disk for your back up ;) |
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Not on your life. There are about 6 of these, with the software that's |
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loaded. A bunch of them take a reeeeaaaalll long time to load. OTOH, |
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the ntfsclone that the kind guy above clued me in about took about 40 |
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minutes. Another 15 or so for the smaller partitions and MBR, and I |
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could rebuild from a completely erased hard drive. Plus I really like |
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backups (long sad experience). |
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> RobbieAB |
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Kevin O'Gorman, PhD |
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