How to use clonezilla to copy just one partition?

[kitepilot at kitepilot.com]

No, it won't.
But you'll have to 'grub-install' anyway if you are going to dual-boot.
I'm sure you'll have to dink around with GRUB after the (cumbersome in my 
opinion) 'Clonezilla' anyway.
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Stephen writes: 

> rsync will not rebuild your boot data however. 
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> 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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