Whole Drive Encryption with TrueCrypt 5.1a (Part 2 of 3)
Posted by: Chris in Adventures in IT, tags: mobile, security(Part 1 of 3) (Part 2 of 3) (Part 3 of 3)
Well, my nifty 120 GB drive arrived! I was very happy with it. Now, how to get my operating system from the old 30GB onto the new 160GB? Clonezilla! I tried the Clonezilla Live CD, and this did a good job of a device-to-device partition transfer. It’s not quite as polished of an imaging product (but its free!) as something like, say, Acronis or Ghost, but if you know just a little Linux then you can get your way through it. The one thing I didn’t like was that Clonezilla did not auto-resize the destination partition. So I have my new 120 GB drive running in my system with a nice, small 30 GB partition and 90GB of unpartitioned space! Now I have to decide if I’m going to partition that space into a new volume or try to resize the partition.
Turns out that the developers of Clonezilla already thought of this potential, and have released a Live CD with a dual-boot scenario that will also load GParted - a Linux-based partition utility. So I’m going to give this a shot and let you know how it goes.
Oh, by the way, in order to image the existing data from my laptop onto the new drive, I was able to use a USB adapter to connect my new drive to the laptop so it could be accessed and written to. So yes, Clonezilla supports USB drives. For laptops, I’d recommend:
Nippon Labs EN-25USB External Enclosure
