Clone and Expand XP

charles chris cccharlz-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
Wed May 2 03:06:01 UTC 2012


I deploy images onto free space and then create an image of the OS
partition and paste it to the data partition.

I always move the data folders to the data partition.

On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 1:26 PM, Christopher Browne <cbbrowne-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>wrote:

> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 12:33 PM, Kevin Cozens <kevin-4dS5u2o1hCn3fQ9qLvQP4Q at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > On 12-05-01 12:20 PM, phiscock-g851W1bGYuGnS0EtXVNi6w at public.gmane.org wrote:
> >> Windows folks periodically cleanse their hard drive: wipe the hard
> drive,
> >> re-install their operating system, and then re-install every last
> >> application that they need. This is a very foreign way of thinking in
> the
> >> Linux world, as the folks on this list will know.
> >
> >
> > It should be a foreign way of thinking. Just think about how often you
> (we)
> > have seen people suggesting that it is better to re-install the latest
> > version of a distro from scratch instead of trying to use its
> update/upgrade
> > feature.
>
> I do like that Debian has developed this to a pretty extreme degree,
> but I still appreciate that there are cases where a careful
> arrangement of "install from scratch" has merits.
>
> The very first time I installed Linux, I made sure I had /home and
> /usr/local on separate partitions so that I had a ready option of
> re-installing some other distribution without destroying my important
> data.  I consider data to be more important than the software, since
> installing fresh software has been made pretty easy.  (And things were
> really not so terribly awful in the mid-90s.)
>
> It used to be that it was an interesting idea to try out the latest &
> greatest distribution from someone else to see what oddities they
> introduced.  There were some neat things in Caldera OpenDesktop, back
> before they "turned evil."
>
> I think there's a fair bit of merit to having your processes set up to
> make it as easy as possible to install from scratch and recover,
> pretty nearly automatically, into a usable state.  There's some pretty
> good material discussing how to do that well:
> <http://www.infrastructures.org/>
>
> The use of Virtual Machines (kvm, xen, VMware, and such) also
> represents an "accent" that sounds rather a lot like what you're
> recommending not to do.
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