Hello,
Excuse me if this is an already known question, my English is not good enough to know what to search :-(.
I have a disk cloned with Clonezilla and good. However is is a 512Gb disk and the original was a 256Gb disk, so half of the disk is wasted.
I would like to clone this 512 Gb disk (Windows, 3 partitions) to a smaller disk, but the exact size may not be exactly the same as the original one at the byte count, so I would like to use clonezilla and not dd (I'm on linux).
This is only an example, I could also clone the disk to a file.
So I would like to run clonezilla from my usual linux machine, without rebooting on a clonezilla iso. Of course not for the mounted running disk, but for two usb disks (ssd)
thanks
jdd
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If your OS is supported by DRBL (Debian or Ubuntu), then you can follow https://drbl.org/installation/#Setup_the_Diskless_Remote_boot_in
to install the required packages. After running "drblsrv -i", you will have all the required packages.
There is no need for you to run "drblpush -i" if you do not plan to use the Clonezilla server edition.
With that, you can run:
sudo clonezilla
to start the saving or restoring jobs. Just remember you can deal with the unmounted devices since the engine of Clonezilla, Partclone, is the block-based program. Not a file-based one.
Steven
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Hello,
Excuse me if this is an already known question, my English is not good enough to know what to search :-(.
I have a disk cloned with Clonezilla and good. However is is a 512Gb disk and the original was a 256Gb disk, so half of the disk is wasted.
I would like to clone this 512 Gb disk (Windows, 3 partitions) to a smaller disk, but the exact size may not be exactly the same as the original one at the byte count, so I would like to use clonezilla and not dd (I'm on linux).
This is only an example, I could also clone the disk to a file.
So I would like to run clonezilla from my usual linux machine, without rebooting on a clonezilla iso. Of course not for the mounted running disk, but for two usb disks (ssd)
thanks
jdd
If your OS is supported by DRBL (Debian or Ubuntu), then you can follow
https://drbl.org/installation/#Setup_the_Diskless_Remote_boot_in
to install the required packages. After running "drblsrv -i", you will have all the required packages.
There is no need for you to run "drblpush -i" if you do not plan to use the Clonezilla server edition.
With that, you can run:
sudo clonezilla
to start the saving or restoring jobs. Just remember you can deal with the unmounted devices since the engine of Clonezilla, Partclone, is the block-based program. Not a file-based one.
Steven
dunno if answer by mail is copied here :-( so:
I will try this. I run either openSUSE or Debian :-)
thanks
jdd