On Thu, 1 Mar 2012, Olwe Bottorff wrote: > I'm doing this because I just wanted to get some practice in for what my > real task is, which is to clone one machine's drive onto another new > machine. My original Ubuntu 11.01 machine has a 160 gb drive, the target > will be 250 gb. If you use dd for this, you'll end up wasting 90gb of diskspace. There are probably auto-cloners, but I'd partition the new drive, then mount each partition and use cpio to clone the files to it. Then boot from a USB drive/live CD and reinstall the boot loader. That's a very basic overview, let me know if you want more detail. -Yaron --