Image size became smaller than expected.

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Image size became smaller than expected.

Forum: Clonezilla live

Creator: Fiksdal

Created: 2015-10-08

Updated: 2015-10-14

Fiksdal - 2015-10-08

Hey guys

This may have been asked before, but I couldn't find any old threads. I hope you guys can help me.

I just used Clonezilla for the first time today. It seemed to go well, but the resulting image is smaller than I expected.

The parition that I wanted to clone has about 21GB of space used on it, yet the image is only about 12GB. Is this normal? Shouldn't the image be about the same size as the space used on the partition?

I have 3 partitions on my drive. A Windows partition, an Ubuntu partition and a storage partition.

This is the partition that I tried to clone , sda5 (Ubuntu partition).

This is the details of the image that was created by Clonezilla:

Here is some info on all my partitions:

http://i208.photobucket.com/albums/bb124/Fiksdal/Screenshot%20from%202015-10-08%20160619.png

What's going on here? Why is my image smaller than the space consumed on the partition? I would really appreciate some help.

Thanks!

Last edit: Fiksdal 2015-10-08

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Fiksdal - 2015-10-10

In case anyone is having the same question, I got answers here:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2298002&p=13369598#post13369598

http://askubuntu.com/questions/682968/clonezilla-image-size-smaller-than-expected

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Steven Shiau - 2015-10-14

Yes, the image file is compressed by default.

Steven.

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