Transferring my install to new computer

[Liam Proven]

On 23 June 2012 21:04, Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net> wrote:
> Liam Proven wrote:
>> But yes, what you propose should work fine. Many tools can compress
>> the image so you won't need a block of space the size of the whole
>> drive. Don't bother backing up the swap partition and empty /tmp
>> before you do it.
>
> And to improve the compression even further you could overwrite the
> remaining space of the disk with a big file of zeros. You could use
> something like the command
>
> dd if=/dev/zero of=zero
>
> in a terminal. After the command exits (with an error message about no
> space left on the device) you can delete the file "zero" (from the
> example above) to regain the free space.

That's true, but surely any vaguely smart filesystem-imaging tool will
only copy occupied space?


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