[SOLVED] Use clonezilla, or create new partitions then copy?

I'm migrating my Arch for the first time. What would you recommend for a complete newb in this area, cloning the disk with some tool like clonezilla, or creating partitions manually and copying everything over?
I saw a few threads on how to make partitions and copy stuff over, but they all leave me with uncertainties. Would cloning the hard drive be an easier option?
Last edited by trusktr (2012-04-01 21:50:09)

trusktr wrote:
Hey graysky thanks for the answer. Could you also provide some insight into why not using clonezilla?
For a someone doing this for the first time ever (like me), creating the new Linux partitions seems kind of tricky. The only time I've ever created partitions was from the Arch Install CD which made them automatically. I'd imagine that I would create each partition with the same size, except for the putting all the extra space of the new hard drive into the home partition.
Best for learning now. Making a partition is easy to do. Just be sure you carefully keep track of drive letters when doing it. Plus, the last time I looked, clonezilla wasn't updated for several years and didn't support ext4. This may have changed though.
Advice: draw out on paper your partition scheme, sort of like a map. ie
/ 15 GB /dev/sda1
/boot 200 MB /dev/sda2
/var 10 GB /dev/sda3
/home <<rest of drive>> /dev/sda4
Then use a util like fdisk or gptdisk to do the partitioning itself. If using GPT, make sure to have an empty 1 MB partition for the BIOS!
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GPT
Here is a nice walk through using GPT --> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/SS … DED_METHOD

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