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brian - 2012-03-19

I have a hard drive 500Gb which has one partition about 20GB in use, in the past if i wanted to clone to a 250GB hard drive i would reduce the size of the partition to less than 250GB, take an image and then deploy that to the smaller drive, but now it comes up with and error when restoring saying "destination disk is too small, destination disk is 250Gb source is 500Gb, ive even tried reducing the partition do under 100GB . leaving over 400GB unused…

thanks

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Graham Inggs - 2012-03-19

Try enabling the 'Skip checking destination disk size before creating partition table' (-icds) advanced parameter.
I find this very annoying as well.

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Steven Shiau - 2012-03-20

Yes, just enable "-icds" in the expert mode.
Normally this option will prevent a broken partition table on the destination disk. However, if you are an expert and really know what you are doing, enable "-icds".

Steven.

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Graham Inggs - 2012-03-20

This was always possible in the past,without requiring '-icds', and I never had a problem with broken partition tables.
Why is it only a problem in the most recent versions of Clonezilla?

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Steven Shiau - 2012-03-20

@ginggs,
Yes, we recently added this feature to prevent such a broken partition table.
A beginner might have this kind of problem.
As a powerful user, I believe you can enter expert mode to enable that option.

Steven.

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Brice_Buchanan - 2012-05-30

Can you please explain in more detail the "Yes, just enable "-icds" in the expert mode." I am looking and I do not see the option for -icds?

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Steven Shiau - 2012-06-01

Which version of Clonezilla live did you use?
If it's updated, then you should be able to see that after you enter "expert mode".

Steven.

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DrMad - 2012-06-10

I confirm the problem… and I confirm that if you include the -icds option in the ocs_live_extra_param field of the command line (eg in the syslinux.cfg file) it solves the problem: you can copy from a bigger source disk (provided of course that you copy a partition that is smaller than your destination disk…)

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Steven Shiau - 2012-06-20

OK, thanks for confirming that.

Steven.

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Ditaly - 2012-07-02

Are you deploying Windows systems? We also tried Clonzilla when our company is trying to deploy 48 new computer installations. But since some computer has larger hard drive (2TB) some are less (aboud 500GB and 1TB), I finally quit using Clonzilla exactly with the same reason you have.

We finally use PC Backup Utilities as the solution. http://www.pcdisktools.com/pcutil.htm
It's awesome. You might wanna to have a look. We deployed 48 computer hard drive images via network in about 5 hours. It adjusts each computer's disk layout automatically to use all the hard drive free space as well as reducing a disk layout to fit into a smaller hard drive. We don't have use any further tool to change the partition layout at all. Highly recommended!

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giovi - 2012-07-03

Are you deploying Windows systems? We also tried Clonzilla when our company is trying to deploy 48 new computer installations. But since some computer has larger hard drive (2TB) some are less (aboud 500GB and 1TB), I finally quit using Clonzilla exactly with the same reason you have.
Question: can dear mozilla ptoject develope partition managements tor newby?

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Steven Shiau - 2012-07-05

So the issue is on disk larger than 2 TB or?
If so, did you try amd64 version of Clonezilla live?
E.g. clonezilla-live-1.2.13-5-amd64.iso

Steven.

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giovi - 2012-07-05

The question is this:
Can you develope and upgrade for a new version who can restore an image on a smaller or greater volume cheking the filesystem ? For newbies and experts. I spent more time using gparted.
Is in mozilla ptoject develope partition managements tor newby? dispensable fix this feature.

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Steven Shiau - 2012-07-23

It might be possible in the future, but not now.
Another possibility is you can try to use fsarchive. It might help.

Steven.

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Dalichow - 2012-07-26

Í am a little bit confused. I have the same problem. I used the version 1.2.1.39 for a very long time. I had no problems to restore a partition with this version. Now I used the current clonezilla (1.2.12.67) and now I can not restore my images because the file sizes does not fit. I treid again the old version: perfect. Everything is working well.
I tried the option "-icds" but it does not help. Clonezilla is working but after reboot I got the error message "Image loading failure. Reload image!".
Why it is not possible to create a current version without this problem? fsarchive is not the solution for us and all other clone programs needs a mouse - but we have industrie touch panels.

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Steven Shiau - 2012-07-30

It looks like your problem is nothing to do with "-icds". Maybe it's on another issue.
How about giving Clonezilla live 20120726-quantal a try?

Steven.

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Michael Powell - 2012-11-06

What about us that cannot use Clonezilla live? Some of us have to use the server version for multicast. I do not see this setting in expert mode. Is it in the server version?

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Michael Powell - 2012-11-06

Nevermind. I found it. Brain gas. Lower down in the advanced user list. Thanks gang!

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Anonymous - 2012-12-22

I'm trying to clone a 1TB disk to a 180GB SSD (about 70GB is in use), but it's not working. With icds enabled in expert mode it continues about 1 step further and stops at 'partition table too big/invalid' whatever. After spending 1 afternoon on trying to get this to work, and backing up everything, (the image is valid and recoverable), I think it's faster to just re-install Windows on the new SSD and put some backups back.

(I still can't figure out why there should be a technical problem in copying 70GB from a 1TB to a 180GB disk ..?)

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Steven Shiau - 2013-01-04

As described here:
http://drbl.org/faq/fine-print.php?path=./2_System/25_restore_larger_disk_to_smaller_one.faq#25_restore_larger_disk_to_smaller_one.faq

Steven.

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Dige - 2013-01-28

The link to this doc is broken.

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David Callisto - 2013-02-04

I tried to extract an image to disk using the -icds option in the advance menu but I still got an error.
take a look at this screenshot

any idea what should I do ?
David

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Steven Shiau - 2013-02-10

The "-C" option is for program "partclone". If you want to use that, you might have to manually run partclone in the command line, or you have to modify ocs-sr program.

Steven.

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Radoslaw Kalinowski - 2013-02-12

Hi, Guys could you check this ? I have the same issue, when i'm trying to clone disc larger that 128 GB for my SSD where is only 30GB used there is error.

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Dave - 2013-02-12

Kali, I am not sure why you/people are having problems with this. I recently added a 128GB SSD to a new laptop. I first used win7 to shrink the system partition on the 320GB HDD, to 80GB, leaving the remainder un-partitioned and un-formatted.

I then used the -icds option in Expert Mode and it all restored to the SSD just fine. After the restore to the SSD I booted win7, let it install drivers for the SSD and rebooted as requested. I then expanded the system partition back up to the max available which is now almost 100GB.

I am typing on that laptop/SSD combo right now and have been for the past week or more.

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