Resize the largest partition automatically?
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#193 Resize the largest partition automatically?
Hi! I was going to use Clonezilla today to copy the contents of one SSD (Windows 11) over to another but it turned out the target drive was slightly smaller than the original drive (They are both claiming to be 4Tb drives but the new one is actually about 100Gb smaller). I saw that people recommended skipping the partition size check with the -icds switch but I was unsure of exactly what that option does. Does it shrink all of the partitions proportionally or does it just just shrink the main, data partition? I would be Ok with the main data partition being a little smaller but I didn't want to change the EFI or Recovery Partition sizes.
Is there a way to easily shrink the main data / OS partition and leave the other partitions their original sizes?
I was going to submit a feature request to the Clonezilla devs to possibly add an option for "Shrink largest partition automatically" or similar so that only that partition would be altered when cloning to a smaller sized disk but I didn't see a place to do feature requests that is currently still active.
Thanks for any advice / assistance!
Clonezilla is actually a block-based program. Hence it's a chanllenge for your case.
It's still can be done, and just more complicated.
Please check this FAQ:
https://drbl.org/fine-print.php?path=./faq/2_System/119_larger_to_smaller_disk_restore_clone.faq#119_larger_to_smaller_disk_restore_clone.faq