Partition size discrepency

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Partition size discrepency

Forum: Clonezilla live

Creator: Jenson Yu

Created: 2015-10-05

Updated: 2015-10-14

Jenson Yu - 2015-10-05

First time user of Clonezilla. Works great when cloning two disks with same size. However, I got confused when cloning a smaller disk to a larger disk.

For example, sda is 50GB, sdb is 100GB. When I finish cloning and boot into Windows, the Disk Manager shows that partition on second hard drive (sdb) is 100GB. But Windows Explorer says that partition is only 50GB. Am I losing 50GB on that hard drive that I can't use?

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- Robert Weir - 2015-10-05
  
  Yes, you have only 50 GB used. Run 'gparted' live to increase the size of your 50 GB partition to the full 100GB.
  
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Jenson Yu - 2015-10-08

Will this process delete the data that's been cloned in that partition?

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Steven Shiau - 2015-10-14

No. GParted will keep the data when resizing.
BTW, next time you can enter expert mode, and check the option "-k1":
http://clonezilla.org/show-live-doc-content.php?topic=clonezilla-live/doc/03_Disk_to_disk_clone

Steven.

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