Best way to copy image to a DVD-RW and then restore to a new partition?
 

Well, a quick search of the forums doesn't seem to touch on this really, except for a couple of references about how I should avoid using Ghost I guess..

But anyway - I have PC that dual-boots between Win2K and Ubuntu, right now the 2K partition is about 2/3 of the drive, which I've decided is waaaay too much.
I have an 80Gig HD, and I'm thinking at this point I want to use all but about 10Gig of that for Ubuntu, since about all I use the Win2K for any more is a couple of financial applications I can't get to run under Linux, and even those I will probably find an alternative for soon.

I thought about using something like Partition Magic to shrink down the Win partition, and then afterwards expand the Linux partition into the freed space - however, A) I don't even know if it'll see the linux partition and B) last time I tried to use Partition Magic it completely horked the drive.

What I think would be safer would be to create DVD images of both partitions, reformat & partition, and then restore - but I'm not sure how to go about this - any suggestions? :confused:

How many partitions do you have and in what order?

Have you considered using something like BootIT NG Resizing would probably be simpler than burning and restoring multiple images. Good luck with it

gparted liveCD is generally recommended for this sort of thing.
There is a sting (or two) in the tail however, as implied by Junior Hacker.
- the Win2k partition had better be first; only move the right (high) boundary.
- growing a Linux partition to the left (i.e. "down") might also be a bit dodgy.

Out of previous experience, with Linux partitions I always resize, re-mkfs, then restore. Then I get what I want, and know it's worked.
Maybe the tools have got better, but I still do it by hand. Something as simple as "cp -a .." or rsync are fine for the backup, although I use external (USB) hard disks.

Eh, drive's got two partitions, the Win2K one first.

For some reason tonight I got it into my head to try an older version of Partition Magic that I had success with previously... and yeah, it horked my Win2K install. Again. No great loss there though, and it didn't mess up the Linux partition.

I actually discovered gparted while trying to fix the thing, and as it turns out, I was able to do (although half-assed considering I had to reinstall windows after the partition magic destruction) what I wanted with it.

When I reinstalled Windows I deleted the now non-functional partition, and recreated it much smaller than before.
Then after it was installed, booted up the gparted CD, and left-dragged the linux partition to take up the empty space that the first partition was no longer using.

Worked like a charm - made me very happy ;)

I was going to recommend either bootitng for the slide or gparted but was not sure how to get grup to find the new position of the Linux /boot sector which is critical for booting Linux. You must have edited the grub.conf or issued a command to get grub to re-build the grub.conf. That is the only part I was not sure of and was a little leary, hence I asked that question.
Maybe gparted took care of that part during the slide.

The biggest difference I see between gparted and bootitng is this grub thing with gparted, and bootitng has the imaging part that I find invaluable.