I think I posted this in the wrong place, so I will repost here. Here is what has happened thus far:
1.
2013-03-22 09:31:01 PDT
I'm running Ubuntu, and created a Clonezilla CD from an iso. I wanted to clone a 64Gb SSD to a 256Gb SSD. I didn't get how disc image worked, so I selected copy drive or partition to drive or partition. Magically, it worked. Unfortunately, the contents of the cloned drive is made up of a 64Gb partition, and a 192Gb partition. I tried using Ubuntu disk utility to get rid of the partition, but of course all the data went with it. This can't be that difficult, how do I clone my OS and data onto one partition in the new drive?
2. robertdaleweir 2013-03-22 09:50:08 PDT
Hi glo48
Download the Gparted iso (also available at Source Forge) and burn it to a CD. Open and resize the first partition to the full 256 gigs. Works for me… Cheers…
glo48
2013-03-22 14:24:53 PDT
I tried that using PartedMagic OS. Didn't work, I simply could not get it to resize. I went back to Ubuntu on my original 64Gb drive, deleted all the partitions, made them one partition, then formatted the drive, and now I'll try again. This can't be that hard…
glo48
2013-03-22 21:52:51 PDT
Ok, I finally did get it to clone to the whole drive, without any partitions. Which is just as well, since I could delete a partition in Gparted, but not convert it to one partition. If I remember right, I formatted the drive, mounted it, then selected option three in Clonezilla (which is incorporated into PartedMagic OS). However, then it would not boot, I just got a blinking cursor after the Bios screen. I searched around in Gparted and found something called Restore Grub bootloader. Then my 256Gb drive was able to load. Unfortunately, some things were missing, like everything in Dash Home; all my applications. All the data seemed to be there, though. Does anyone know what's going on? When I cloned the working drive to the new, larger drive, why didn't the bootloader clone as well? There's obviously something else going on, but I came from the Windoze world, so I can't figure out what it is, or how to fix it. Hope someone can help…
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Thank you all for your help, I finally got my drive cloned, using Clonezilla. I'm sorry, I can't tell you exactly what I did differently the last time I tried, but I did try quite a few combinations before it worked. Of course, I should have been writing everything down. I even used the gparted program to expand my data partition to one partition. When everything seemed to be ok on the new SSD drive I updated to Ubunti 12.04, from 11.X.
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I think I posted this in the wrong place, so I will repost here. Here is what has happened thus far:
1.
2013-03-22 09:31:01 PDT
I'm running Ubuntu, and created a Clonezilla CD from an iso. I wanted to clone a 64Gb SSD to a 256Gb SSD. I didn't get how disc image worked, so I selected copy drive or partition to drive or partition. Magically, it worked. Unfortunately, the contents of the cloned drive is made up of a 64Gb partition, and a 192Gb partition. I tried using Ubuntu disk utility to get rid of the partition, but of course all the data went with it. This can't be that difficult, how do I clone my OS and data onto one partition in the new drive?
2. robertdaleweir 2013-03-22 09:50:08 PDT
Hi glo48
Download the Gparted iso (also available at Source Forge) and burn it to a CD. Open and resize the first partition to the full 256 gigs. Works for me… Cheers…
glo48
2013-03-22 14:24:53 PDT
I tried that using PartedMagic OS. Didn't work, I simply could not get it to resize. I went back to Ubuntu on my original 64Gb drive, deleted all the partitions, made them one partition, then formatted the drive, and now I'll try again. This can't be that hard…
glo48
2013-03-22 21:52:51 PDT
Ok, I finally did get it to clone to the whole drive, without any partitions. Which is just as well, since I could delete a partition in Gparted, but not convert it to one partition. If I remember right, I formatted the drive, mounted it, then selected option three in Clonezilla (which is incorporated into PartedMagic OS). However, then it would not boot, I just got a blinking cursor after the Bios screen. I searched around in Gparted and found something called Restore Grub bootloader. Then my 256Gb drive was able to load. Unfortunately, some things were missing, like everything in Dash Home; all my applications. All the data seemed to be there, though. Does anyone know what's going on? When I cloned the working drive to the new, larger drive, why didn't the bootloader clone as well? There's obviously something else going on, but I came from the Windoze world, so I can't figure out what it is, or how to fix it. Hope someone can help…
"Unfortunately, the contents of the cloned drive is made up of a 64Gb partition, and a 192Gb partition. " -> When you do disk_to_local_disk clone, you can enter expert mode, and choose the option "-k1". It will create proportional partition size on the destination disk:
http://clonezilla.org/clonezilla-live/doc/03_Disk_to_disk_clone/advanced/05-advanced-param.php
Steven.
Thank you all for your help, I finally got my drive cloned, using Clonezilla. I'm sorry, I can't tell you exactly what I did differently the last time I tried, but I did try quite a few combinations before it worked. Of course, I should have been writing everything down. I even used the gparted program to expand my data partition to one partition. When everything seemed to be ok on the new SSD drive I updated to Ubunti 12.04, from 11.X.
OK, got it. Thanks for reporting that.
Steven.