[ale] partitioning

[Brian Pitts]

Paul Cartwright wrote:
> On Friday 13 July 2007 01:47:05 pm Brian Pitts wrote:
>> Parted's not actually that bad. I imagine the command you want is
>> 'parted $DEVICE mkpartfs primary ext2 0% 100%', where $DEVICE is the
>> drive you want to partition. This will also create the filesystem.
> 
> easy for you to say :)
> actually, I was trying to set it up like someone else mentioned earlier, with 
> a small fat32 filesystem, where you put ext2ifs files ( I installed it on my 
> XP laptop setup already), and the rest is ext3.
>  I have finally accomplished that setup!
> I am in the process now of backing up my /home to that drive. When finished 
> I'll either ghost my XP setup, or do the file backup program.. haven't 
> decided yet.

For "ghosting" XP, take a look at partimage (http://www.partimage.org) 
or ntfsclone (http://man.linux-ntfs.org/ntfsclone.8.html). Both have 
worked for me in the past. I now stick with partimage since I can use it 
for almost any filesystem.

-Brian