It seems like you read the first part of my post, but not the rest, and answered a question that I never asked. I know the MBR system, I actually made the parts inside LL (settings -> Disks) so was not 100% sure exactly what was going on, but I was not asking anything about how or why or how much to partition. But thanks for the info, I learned something.
As I said, I had LL on 12G, and was running out of space (no swap, lots of games, and stream a lot of video). I have extra HDDs laying around, and six operating systems is quite enough, I am just trying out some distros. Here's me:
sda
/dev/sda1 - windows - keeping
/dev/sda2 - was LL
/dev/sda3 - win recovery part
sdb (in progress)
/dev/sdb1 - Ubuntu
/dev/sdb2 - Elementary OS
/dev/sdb3 - Linux lite
/dev/sdb4 - Tails
My question was not really about the partitions, I didn't ask about that. Every link I found trying to find this out for myself was information about how to partition or make a boot usb/cd, but that is not what I'm doing, and not what I asked. Space is NOT an issue, partiton creation and size are not issues that I am concerned about in regard to my question.
THE REAL QUESTION:
To reiterate, using the partitions listed above, let's say I decide I hate Ubuntu (everything except the package manager, which Elementary also has). For whatever reason, I want to move my entire LL install from sdb3 to sdb1, keeping all installed packages and config files. How would I do that? Would a "backup" include all those files? If that's not what cloning is, then what is it called?
Edited to be less condescending. Bugs me when people answer without understanding the question.
As I said, I had LL on 12G, and was running out of space (no swap, lots of games, and stream a lot of video). I have extra HDDs laying around, and six operating systems is quite enough, I am just trying out some distros. Here's me:
sda
/dev/sda1 - windows - keeping
/dev/sda2 - was LL
/dev/sda3 - win recovery part
sdb (in progress)
/dev/sdb1 - Ubuntu
/dev/sdb2 - Elementary OS
/dev/sdb3 - Linux lite
/dev/sdb4 - Tails
My question was not really about the partitions, I didn't ask about that. Every link I found trying to find this out for myself was information about how to partition or make a boot usb/cd, but that is not what I'm doing, and not what I asked. Space is NOT an issue, partiton creation and size are not issues that I am concerned about in regard to my question.
THE REAL QUESTION:
To reiterate, using the partitions listed above, let's say I decide I hate Ubuntu (everything except the package manager, which Elementary also has). For whatever reason, I want to move my entire LL install from sdb3 to sdb1, keeping all installed packages and config files. How would I do that? Would a "backup" include all those files? If that's not what cloning is, then what is it called?
Edited to be less condescending. Bugs me when people answer without understanding the question.