I have hd drive with linux system installed (single partition - /dev/sdb5).
I need to clone system to new, blank ssd disk. Ssd disk capacity is enough to clone my partition, but I can't create image to restore because I don't have any drive to be used to create image on it.
So my question: is this possible to live clone my partition sdb5 from old disk into partition sda1 on new disk directly, without creating any image? What is the best way to do this with CloneZilla?
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Hello,
I have hd drive with linux system installed (single partition - /dev/sdb5).
I need to clone system to new, blank ssd disk. Ssd disk capacity is enough to clone my partition, but I can't create image to restore because I don't have any drive to be used to create image on it.
So my question: is this possible to live clone my partition sdb5 from old disk into partition sda1 on new disk directly, without creating any image? What is the best way to do this with CloneZilla?
First of all, backup important data before you use Clonezilla.
What you need to do is basically similar to this:
http://clonezilla.org/show-live-doc-content.php?topic=clonezilla-live/doc/03_Disk_to_disk_clone
Just remember to choose "part_to_local_part":
http://clonezilla.org/clonezilla-live/doc/03_Disk_to_disk_clone/images/ocs-06-disk-to-local-disk-clone.png
However, you need to deal with boot loader after it's cloned.
Steven.