ERROR no space left on device when drive to drive
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I have a hdd 650gb and bought a ssd 275gb. On hdd i have 140gb taken all other space is free. There is hiddem 16gb restore partition in the hdd. I have a USB stick wwith clonezilla a hdd in laptop and connecting the ssd via usb. When i go to advenced mode and check this options: http://clonezilla.org/clonezilla-live/doc/02_Restore_disk_image/advanced/09-advanced-param.php
It start cloning drive with partitions and when about 57,32% of hidden partition cloning it stops and say
Write block 1647871 ERROR: No space left on device. i have a 275gb ssd so how in the hell it says its full when copy 16gb partition ? It stops on 165gb too in some about 65%
Last edit: airflame 2017-12-01
The hard drive look like this
SDA1 about 100mb
SDA2 16 GB
SDA3 165 GB
REST UNALLOCATED SPACE
So it should copy 200gb but clonezilla fails on the SDA2
https://preview.ibb.co/d2zuLG/IMG_20171201_104041.jpg
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Last edit: airflame 2017-12-01
I dont know its so confusing on clonezilla.org it says: "The destination partition must be equal or larger than the source one."
but in other hand it says in http://clonezilla.org/clonezilla-live/doc/02_Restore_disk_image/advanced/09-advanced-param.php "If the target disk size is larger than the size of source disk of image, you can try to use option "-k1" which will create the partition table proportionally in the target disk and turn on option "-r" to resize the file file system in the partition automatically. This is useful to make use all of the target disk size."
So i ask the autor is there a way to clione 650GB HDD to 275GB SSD if there is 3x partitions in HDD:
SDA1 about 100mb (OEM)
SDA2 16 GB
SDA3 165 GB
REST UNALLOCATED SPACE
So have you tried to use Expert Mode and use the "-k1" option (the "-r" option is turned on by default)? What was the result?
Quietly similar problem here! I have to admit I do use Clonezilla from long time with satisfaction, then never had to restore an image to a smallest drive than the one the image refer to.
I had to do this yesterday and I found this limit. For me this is a big limit becouse it is quietly common, even if it was first time I try this with Clonezilla, to have an image of a disk with a lot of empty sectors in it and a smallest disk able to handle the real data on the image.
Also for me, even if the disks were quietly similar (the image was from a 512 GB drive and the new disk is 500 GB), Clonezilla with options "-k1" and "-r" failed miserably on the last partitions of the three.
Lucky, the last partition was pretty small and a recovery partition, and Clonezilla was able to complete the relevant part of the job even if stopped with the no space left on device message.
Lucky, the new disk, booted fine. To complete the job I then had to use Parted Image to resize the last partition and live copy it to the new drive from the original drive.
I think this feature copy a disk/restore and image to another smallest disk if the source disk contain less data compared to his actual declared size, it is mandatory.
Please let me know if this is always possible with Clonezilla with other options I do not know. Too bad for me it wasn't possible, becouse I highly consider Clonezilla and this is a big limit.
This is a limit definitely, and it's very unlikely to improve because we use block-based imaging program (Partclone), not file-based one in Clonezilla. Block-based one has some good features, like it's easier to support more file systems, and it's faster. However, it does have some limit, like the one you have encountered.
Steven