How to copy linux to a different partition
We can be happily working away on our computer and we spent hours putting the final touches on the caricature of our political leader. When we try to save it we get an unable to save error. Puzzled we do a bit of investigating and find that our partition is full. After deleting a few temporary files and managing to save our masterpiece we decide that, as we haven't used windows for a long time and it is a much bigger partition, we will delete windows and move our now precious linux to the bigger partition. Then we scratch our head, sit back and think "How do I do that?". Here's how.
Linux is such a flexible and forgiving operating system that it doesn't care where it sits on your hard drive. It is quite easy to move from partition to partition or even from computer to computer with no problems. There are no license problems, no having to register to big brother, in fact no restrictions at all.
To start with you need a live or rescue CD. Trying to copy a running linux is like trying to do a heart transplant on a conscious patient. The CD that you installed linux from should be enough as they generally have a rescue mode. The instructions I am giving are not targeted at any particular linux distribution so they should be adjusted to fix your particular flavour of linux. I will also target the grub bootloader as most distributions use that but if you still use lilo the same principles apply.
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