On Wed, 20 Sep 2023 21:28:29 -0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote:

> > you may as well then restore from that backup. I'm sure it will be a
> > lot quicker than GParted's moving all the data around.  
> 
> That depends on how long it takes me to decide on tar vs. rsync and
> what the appropriate options are. After 40 years using Unix, you'd
> think I'd know that (or have it written down somewhere). :)

If you written everything down, after 40 years you'd have so many bits of
paper you wouldn't be able to find anything ;-)
 
> That said, I think I will go with the backup, repartition, restore
> method. It's been many, many years since I used GParted, and I can
> probably have the whole job done from the command-line before I can
> figure out how the GParted GUI works.

:)


-- 
Neil Bothwick

The facts, although interesting, are usually irrelevant.