| orly_owl | what program will clone from bigger to smaller hdd? | 11:38 |
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| head_victim | orly_owl: rsync? | 11:41 |
| orly_owl | hmm | 11:42 |
| orly_owl | what commands though | 11:42 |
| orly_owl | i will use a live cd | 11:42 |
| orly_owl | cloning internal hdd to usb hdd | 11:42 |
| head_victim | Depends on the use case for the backup | 11:43 |
| orly_owl | usb hdd will go into another pc | 11:43 |
| orly_owl | source disk has a distro installed on it | 11:44 |
| head_victim | Ah, probably look at gparted to reduce the size of the hdd and then use clonezilla to make it go. | 11:44 |
| orly_owl | 2hrm | 11:44 |
| head_victim | rsync might do it but you'd have to look up what switches would need to be used (I only use it for file backup, not entire systems) | 11:45 |
| head_victim | Resizing partitions is going to be slow though from memory. | 11:45 |
| orly_owl | prolly | 11:45 |
| orly_owl | tar seems like a better option | 11:45 |
| head_victim | Use what you know I say. | 11:49 |
| orly_owl | i really dont know any cloning tools that well | 11:50 |
| orly_owl | ive used clonezilla but it doesnt clone to smaller disks | 11:50 |
| head_victim | I've never really cloned anything, just backed up. | 11:51 |
| head_victim | Worst case I start over and suck back directories I think I need. | 11:52 |
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| orly_owl | busy? it aint busy, its unmounted | 12:32 |
| orly_owl | hey, who has a 2.5" ide hdd they dont want? | 13:15 |
| ikt | 2.5" ide | 13:20 |
| orly_owl | thats what i said ^^ | 13:20 |
| ikt | pretty sure the only ones i have i throw out cuz they're busted | 13:20 |
| orly_owl | damn | 13:20 |
| orly_owl | you in melb? | 13:20 |
| ikt | adel | 13:20 |
| orly_owl | darn | 13:21 |
| orly_owl | when i go to make a swap partition it throws up an error | 13:23 |
| orly_owl | but i can slap on an ext4 partition ok | 13:24 |
| sagaci | swap partitions? who needs em | 13:24 |
| orly_owl | you think? | 13:24 |
| orly_owl | yeah im considering just omitting it | 13:24 |
| ikt | 8gb of ram ftw | 13:24 |
| orly_owl | this pc will have 1gb | 13:24 |
| orly_owl | so | 13:25 |
| sagaci | netbook? | 13:25 |
| orly_owl | pentium m laptop | 13:25 |
| orly_owl | toshiba portege m200 to be exact | 13:25 |
| orly_owl | ill have to hunt around for more ram if i have any | 13:25 |
| sagaci | my netbook is dying | 13:25 |
| orly_owl | whats wrong with it | 13:26 |
| sagaci | the y key has broken off and honey is down near the left ctrl | 13:26 |
| orly_owl | just replace the kb then | 13:26 |
| sagaci | the underlying plastice is nice to type on so I'm contemplating just taking off the keyboard letter | 13:27 |
| orly_owl | or that, yes | 13:27 |
| sagaci | I'd rather buy an ultrabook | 13:27 |
| sagaci | aka a netbook with a decent engine | 13:28 |
| orly_owl | ill take your netbook then | 13:28 |
| orly_owl | ^^ | 13:28 |
| sagaci | it might work ok as an irc session or ssh to home at work | 13:28 |
| Lindon-Wynter | ikt: :) | 15:24 |
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