How to use clonezilla to copy just one partition?

[Stephen]

rsync will not rebuild your boot data however.


On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 12:56 PM, kitepilot at kitepilot.com <
kitepilot at kitepilot.com> wrote:

> Hello Joe, if I was you I'd forget about 'Clonezilla' and go either rsync
> or tar:
> I'd boot with a CD (Debian live is perfect) and:
> rsync -xaHDC --super /my/mounted/partition root at remotebox:/my/new/**
> partition
> or
> tar jcf - /my/mounted/partition|
>    ssh root at remotebox 'cd /my/new/partition;tar jxf -'
> YMMV...
> ET
>
> joe at actionline.com writes:
>
>> After reading and watching several youtube tutorials about clonezilla,
>> remastersys, relinux, monodorescue, maketecheasier, live-magic,
>> linux-live, revisor, instalinux, and several more, I am thoroughly
>> confused. The best tutorial I've seen so far was this one:
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?**v=490n_VoldUg<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=490n_VoldUg>-- however, it shows how to do
>> a complete system backup and restore and does not explain how to clone a
>> single partition from one system and install that partition on a different
>> system in a dual-boot arrangement.
>> I have Kubuntu Linux installed on an IBM Thinkpad and I would like to
>> install that Linux partition on my Lenovo Q150 net-top on which I have
>> shrunk the windows-7 partition to half of the 250-gig HD and created
>> 100-gig of free space on the rest of that HD so as to have both available
>> in a dual-boot arrangement. Do I need to install Kubuntu on the Lenovo
>> first? Or what is the best procedure to achieve the desired dual-boot?
>>
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