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I have an acronis image of my 20gb Ubuntu hard drive. I then put this image onto an 80gb hard drive. Is there a way in Ubuntu 8.04 to expand this 20gb partition to include the entire 80gb drive? This is just Ubuntu boot; NO windows or dual boot. Thanks in advance.

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Make a partition of the exact same size as it was before, write then image and then resize the partition from an Ubuntu live-cd or from acronis. You problem come from the fact that it is a raw image. If I remember, normally, acronis is suppose to take "intellegent" ghost image, but apparently, not this time.

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qwix: is gparted part of Ubuntu 8.04? Or must I install? Do I run this in terminal? Sorry for the questions but have never used gparted.

Elv13: The old "Drive Image" used to ask if you wanted the image partition to be expanded to include the entire drive; but I've never seen this option in Acronis True Image. Your saying to use a live CD on the blank 80gb drive, and then copy the 20gb image to this 80gb partition?

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SOLVED: Found gparted, installed in the 20gb partition on the 80gb drive. Great Program. Looks and works just like Acronis Disk Director Suite. Now have a GIANT ext3 on /dev/sde1. Thanks guys very much! The reason it's sde is because there are two big NTFS storage drives in the system, but without any operating systems.

Thanks again!

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