Martin J.

Thanks, I hope the article can help someone else in the future and avoid doing the same mistakes I did!

Hi. Just a final comment: I made myself a blog post of all the stupid mistakes I did, for completing this task - if anyone is interested this is the link: https://mfj.one/2023/05/cloneziila/ (I appreciate feedback, if you read it and have anything to add)...

Hi Steven. Thanks a lot! It's working now - although I'm not completely sure why :-) I think I'll write a blog post about it and update this thread with a link, in case anyone wants to do something similar and avoid all the stupid mistakes I did along the way... Thanks!

damn, I'm stuck - I cannot figure out how to create the partition table because when it comes to /dev/sda5 it says: "Sector (the start-sector) already used. Failed to add #5 partition: Numerical result out of range" - and this is completely weird, because the start sector is completely the same as on the original disk, it's for the later partitions that I had to do some artithmetics to calculate the offsets??? Furthermore, I googled the problem and was led to an Ubuntu-launchpad bug-site where I...

I've been playing a bit with it now. Allow me to add some details: It seems cloneziila does not understand what I want to do, or at least it cannot automatically create the partition table for me - please see screenshot. Also, a bit earlier I received an error or maybe a warning, which I tracked down to the code around line 1666 in https://github.com/stevenshiau/clonezilla/blob/master/sbin/ocs-sr where it says: # In this case, it's too complicated to restore partitions to different partitions on...

Sorry, I don't understand that comment. What do you mean the data "isn't stored in partitions with an SSD-disk"? I've never heard that before. I don't think wear leveling is relevant here, but please let me know if I'm wrong.

Sorry, I don't understand that comment. What do you mean the data "isn't stored in partitions with an SSD-disk"? I've never heard that before.

You mean first take a full clone of the source disk. Then delete the partitions I want to delete and take another full clone and then restore the latter to the smaller SSD. And then restore the first backup to the source disk, so it still works? I understand that's a possible solution and at the moment I don't have space for the extra full-disk backup (that can however be fixed, if I really want). But more importantly, I also think it could be great for me to learn something new, i.e. manually fix...