Re: [Clonezilla-live] Cloning a larger hard drive to a smaller hard drive

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Gary, that's an interesting method. I'm almost done reading Steven's
document, but while waiting to hear from him, I want to try your
method too. To be clear, when you say "make your largest partition
small enough so that the whole drive will fit on the destination",
"whole drive" does not include the unallocated space at the end of all
the partitions, right? If I understood you correctly, your method
involves:

1. Shrink partitions, and move all unallocated space to the end of the
drive if necessary
2. Use Clonezilla to save the whole disk to an image. I assume
Clonezilla only sees partitions as part of the total disk size and NOT
the unallocated space?
3. Restore the image to a smaller hard drive whose size is bigger than
the total size of all the resized partitions on source drive.

Is this right? If this works, it's even easier than Steven's method
because I won't have to make sure the partitions on the destination
drive are the correct size before restoring. I also only have to do
the restoration process once (image to drive) instead of for each
partition. But perhaps you or Steven know something I don't. I'm going
to try testing those 3 steps above to see what happens.