Re: [Clonezilla-live] trouble growing partition after restoration

[Steven S. <st...@nc...>]

Hi Bill,
When you restored the image, did you enter expert mode, and choose 
option "-k1"?
If so, Clonezilla should create the partition size proportionally on the 
target disk, and resize the file system size to fit the partition size.
If you just use the beginner mode, by default it uses the partition size 
from the image.

Steven.

Bill Gurley wrote:
> Update:
>
> I finally tried creating the full disk partition and letting clonezilla 
> re-size the file system after restoring the image.  This worked.
>
> However, I still would like to know why the procedure below would not 
> work.  I like using this procedure because I have, for example, about 
> twenty Gateway E4100 machines in my building.  They are older machines, 
> and consequently have varying sizes of disks, ranging from 20GB to 
> 250GB.  So I like to keep the images at 20GB or 40GB images.  Obviously 
> you cannot restore a 250GB image to an 80GB drive, so this is the reason 
> I like to use small partitions for saving images.
>
> So, in summary, the issue is restoring a "small" image to a big disk and 
> then re-sizing the NTFS partition afterwards.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> Bill Gurley wrote:
>   
>> I'm going round and round in circles on this.  It's something I have 
>> done many times in the past, but am now having trouble.
>>
>> I keep standard Windows XP installation images of various computer 
>> models used in my department.  Here's is my problem:
>>
>> I have a 40GB image that I want to restore to a 250GB hard drive. 
>> Ultimately, I want the single NTFS partition to take up the entire drive.
>>
>> I normally start this situation by creating an empty 40GB partition on 
>> the target drive, and then use clonezilla live to restore to that.  I'm 
>> using all the default settings.
>>
>> After restoration, I boot to XP, then reboot again.
>>
>> Then I use a partitioning program, such as gparted (but I have tried 
>> others), to grow the partition.
>>
>> After booting back into XP, it still sees drive C: as having the 
>> original partition size!  If I go into Computer Management > Disk 
>> Management, it shows the NTFS partition with the new increased size. 
>> But the total "capacity" identified by Windows is the original 40GB!
>>
>> Also:  If I use the commercial Partition Magic program, and choose 
>> "Check For Errors", I get two entries that say:
>>
>> "Information mismatch in directory entry"
>>
>> Suggestions?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>
>> -Bill-
>>
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>>     Department of Chemistry
>>     Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville
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