I've used Norton Ghost years ago (I still use it to do a monthly image
backup of the one remaining Windoze machine at home, but I've never tried
a restore). I also use G4L (ghost for linux) to back up my laptop and
server. In each case, I put the image on a USB hard drive. I've tried
doing a restore to a same sized drive as the one in my server (Fedora Core
4), and it worked fine.

If these programs indeed make an image of the drive, sector by sector (or
LBA by LBA), what exactly happens when you restore to a larger drive? It
seems that the partition table will still point to a particular sector for
the start of partition and indicate the partition is the same size. The
file system (FAT or ext3 or whatever) will still say this file starts
here, uses these sectors, etc. How do they deal with the extra space on
the new larger drive? If it's a true drive image, it SEEMS that it would
just be invisible...

Harold

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