On Nov 7, 2007 8:43 PM, Isaac Atilano <aristophrenic at warpmail.net> wrote: > > This will copy the partition table and file system as is, so you won't > be fully utilizing the space on the destination disk. Depending on what > you want to do with the destination disk, this may or may not matter. If > you want to fully utilize the destination disk, you'll have to use a > partition and file system resizing program. You're absolutely right, Issac. I forgot to mention that, as a second step, I usually go in with gparted and resize the partitions to fully utilize the space on the new disk. -Erik -- Erik Anderson http://andersonfam.org