[ale] how do I clone a hard drive with clonezilla

[Phil Turmel]

On 10/25/2012 10:58 AM, James Sumners wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 9:31 AM, Phil Turmel <philip at turmel.org> wrote:
>> On 10/25/2012 09:01 AM, James Sumners wrote:
>>> He said he wants to clone the _larger_ drive to the smaller drive.
>>> Since dd is a block-for-block copy, it won't be able to copy to the
>>> smaller drive; unless you don't care that it will error out with 20GB
>>> of blocks left to copy.
>>
>> Ron's request specifically stated that the last partition was within the
>> size of the target.  So yes, the out-of-space error as the end is
>> expected and harmless.
> 
> Not if the source is fragmented and has data in that final 20GB that
> really shouldn't have been.

>From the OP: "several partitions and various file systems but only less
than 300 gb allocated to the partitions" and "The small drive will have
about 3 gb unallocated when done."

So no, no data is at risk, as the excess space is *unpartitioned*.

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Phil