Larger Drive to Smaller Drive Possible?
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I know this may sound redundant and I read on the screen that clonezilla can not do a larger to smaller drive.
I have machine exact hardware except for harddrive Now the machine that was cloned had a 500gb drive in it and somehow I was sucessfull able to use clone zilla to clone to a 350gb harddrive. The image itself is only like 9gb and once imaged maybe 10gb worth of stuff completely.
I have tried both options resize file system and resize partitions proportionally inside clonezilla. I know this is a feature with ghost that the harrdrive just has to be as big as needed to hold image.
Can clonezilla do this? Is it planned? I really need some help becuase I just started using clonezilla testing to replace our ghost solution and plan on donating every year to the project, but I need some help on this functionality
Larger Disk 500gb to Smaller Disk 160gb once imaged only using 10-15 gb of drive????
Please advise
Thanks in advance,
Scott Owens
Scott,
I'd go for the following:
1. On the source disk, resize (shrink) the 500 GB partition so that it is only 150 GB (using GParted, for instance)
2. On the target disk, create the partitioning scheme (the partition being equal or larger than the source one)
3. Using Clonezilla, create the image of the source *partition* (do NOT choose disk image!)
4. And then restore the partition image to the empty one just created on the target disk (with the *restore partition* option).
This should work, though it is somewhat convoluted (isn't it?).
That is the problem the source machine is no longer available so I have an image only. Is there a way to do this. Ghost does it automatically you need a drive big enough to accept the image and the drive size does not matter
or not so the image, but just enough spacr for file system.
Scott,
The reason that Clonezilla can not do so is explained here:
http://drbl.sourceforge.net/faq/fine-print.php?path=./2_System/25_restore_larger_disk_to_smaller_one.faq#25_restore_larger_disk_to_smaller_one.faq
So far Clonezilla is image-based, not file-based. That's the limit.
As for the plan to do file-based clone, well, we hope we can have some progress before 2010. But maybe this can only for Linux file systems (ext2/ext3/ext4, reiserfs, xfs...) , not NTFS or HFS+...
Jean-Francois,
Thanks for providing a workaround about this. :)
Steven.
Steven.