Resizing of partitions after cloning them. Why?
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New user. After cloning a 160GB to a 1TB drive, things appeared to be normal. In order to have a sandbox to play in, I then attempted to clone that 1TB drive to another 1TB drive and got an error in the process. It has to do with what I believe to be the System Restore partition. At that point, I reverted to cloning just that partition (after other disk cloning efforts to confirm the "anomaly"). Upon examination, it appears that after clonezilla clones a partition, in some cases, in has the need to resize the partition and then "schedule" it for a chkdsk run on the next Windows boot cycle.
Of course, this is not the normal boot partition. When I attempted to clone this drive to the second drive w/o understanding, it failed on that partition. Attempting to clone that partition by itself repeats the problem, of course. I now notice that the instructions are to run chkdsk on the next windows boot, but I don't think this partition even shows up in the "My Computer" screen. I further notice that there are options when cloning this partition, to run chkdsk against the source partition prior to the cloning operation in order to clean it up. (I assume its not cloneable until this is done.) What's going on here? If clonezilla messes with the drive in such a way that it needs to be cleaned up with chkdsk, why doesn't it provide an immediate option to do this within clonezilla? I don't want to mess up the System Restore image. I notice that the resizeing wants to increase the size of the volume by 113,174,176 bytes, which interestingly, is not a multiple of 512. I'd like a technical answer to what's going on here. Still learning. Thanks.
"why doesn't it provide an immediate option to do this within clonezilla?" -> It because there is no good "chkdsk" tool for NTFS on GNU/Linux. Clonezilla runs on GNU/Linux, so...
You have to do that on MS Windows.
Steven.
we had in the past the same scenario, what we did was after the clonning used any tool (Gparted for example) to resize the partition, them when its ready and running with the size that you wanted, we create a new master image to replicate ino the others new pcs with the same disk size....