[ale] cloning drive using gparted

[gcs8]

can you get some logs going so you know where its getting stuck.

On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 9:11 AM, Narahari 'n' Savitha <savithari at gmail.com>wrote:

> Friends:
>
> I created a VMPlayer VM containing Lubuntu 11.10.  It is working perfect.
>
> When I created the VM though, I made it dynamically expanding upto 12GB
> instead of "allocate all space now".  Let us call this DISK1
>
> I am trying to convert from dyanmically expanding to "allocate all space
> now" but I could not do it directly withing VMPlayer.
>
> I then created another disk of size of 12GB the vmdk file with "allocat
> all space now" option.  Let us call this DISK2.
>
> I mounted both drives and then logged in with GParted and used that to
> copy the DISK1 Partition to DISK2 Partition.
>
> However when I make DISK2 the only drive and then start the VM it just
> hangs.
>
> I am not sure what else I am supposed to do like copying MBR or anything
> else.
>
> Please shed some light.
>
> -Narahari
>
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