Hello - So I've seen this idea discussed in plenty of places but I'm having trouble finding help with my specific situation. I have a Ubuntu machine with a 120 GB drive. I want to be able clone the installation onto other computers that may have smaller drives, and do not currently have partitions set up to match the original machine. I've created a 10 GB partition on the original machine that it boots from and contains everything except my swap which is in an extension partition. The rest of the hard drive I've left un-allocated. How can I create a disk image with only the allocated partitions ignoring any thing that's un-allocated?
Thanks,
Matt.
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Different machines, different hardware, different settings that's the problem.
(You have got a clonezilla image of one machine with own hardware only)
Another problem is, the destination partition size must be equal to or larger than the source one.
(You have prepared this one)
At first make a normal backup of your important data.
And now the easiest way is
to install 'ubuntu' and backup your data at your all other machines simply,
otherwise
if you use clonezilla (onto SD card or USB stick) :
-"a 10 GB partition on the original machine that it boots from and contains everything except my swap which is in an extension partition." #that's o.k. , but I use 25 GB for real 18 GB (9GB compressed) for ubuntu 12.04 LTS after a year
-make a clonezilla 'saveparts' (sda1) in standard mode with an external USB drive as repository
-make a clonezilla 'restoreparts' onto a machine with similar hardware initially (to study the start behaviour later)
Before you start this machine
-make an ethernet connection to this machine (ubuntu should adapted the different hardware and settings)
Good luck!
If you would like to refer to this comment somewhere else in this project, copy and paste the following link:
Hello - So I've seen this idea discussed in plenty of places but I'm having trouble finding help with my specific situation. I have a Ubuntu machine with a 120 GB drive. I want to be able clone the installation onto other computers that may have smaller drives, and do not currently have partitions set up to match the original machine. I've created a 10 GB partition on the original machine that it boots from and contains everything except my swap which is in an extension partition. The rest of the hard drive I've left un-allocated. How can I create a disk image with only the allocated partitions ignoring any thing that's un-allocated?
Thanks,
Matt.
Different machines, different hardware, different settings that's the problem.
(You have got a clonezilla image of one machine with own hardware only)
Another problem is, the destination partition size must be equal to or larger than the source one.
(You have prepared this one)
At first make a normal backup of your important data.
And now the easiest way is
to install 'ubuntu' and backup your data at your all other machines simply,
otherwise
if you use clonezilla (onto SD card or USB stick) :
-"a 10 GB partition on the original machine that it boots from and contains everything except my swap which is in an extension partition." #that's o.k. , but I use 25 GB for real 18 GB (9GB compressed) for ubuntu 12.04 LTS after a year
-make a clonezilla 'saveparts' (sda1) in standard mode with an external USB drive as repository
-make a clonezilla 'restoreparts' onto a machine with similar hardware initially (to study the start behaviour later)
Before you start this machine
-make an ethernet connection to this machine (ubuntu should adapted the different hardware and settings)
Good luck!