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Latest Clonezilla - cannot restore disk to smaller disk (/dev/sda unrecognised error)

Forum: Help

Creator: Bang Quach

Created: 2019-09-30

Updated: 2019-10-13

Bang Quach - 2019-09-30

Hello,

I am trying to restore a disk of size 256GB (only 9GB is used for the 2 partitions), to a vmware disk of 32GB. I enabled the option -icds something but here is the log (attached as PNG)

The process however is successful when restored to a disk of the same size. Even then, I can't boot into the disk after the restore. I have used restoredisk with beginner and expert settings.

Error.png

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Steven Shiau - 2019-10-13

Well, the larger disk to smaller one is never fully supported in Clonezilla, as described here:
https://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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