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

[Ron Frazier (ALE)]

James Sumners <james.sumners at gmail.com> 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.
>

The last 20 GB is unallocated space, not part of any partition, if that helps.

>>> In regard to Clonezilla, directly from clonezilla.org: "The
>>> destination partition must be equal or larger than the source one."
>>> Also, "For unsupported file system, sector-to-sector copy is done by
>>> dd in Clonezilla."
>>>
>>> I think the best way to "clone" this drive to the smaller one is to
>>> prepare the partitions on the second drive and then copy the file
>>> system over. You can do it with two computers or with both drives in
>>> one computer, and there are multiple ways of doing it. I usually
>just
>>> use ssh, netcat, and tar:
>>>
>>> (on the destination machine) `cd /where/the/partition/is/mounted/ &&
>>> nc -l 5555 | tar xf - `
>>> (on the source machine) `cd /where/the/partition/is/mounted/ && tar
>cf
>>> - * | nc 192.168.0.5 5555`
>>
>> I suspected from Ron's other postings that one of the partitions was
>> ntfs... this scrambles the ACLs and renders that partition
>effectively
>> unusable.  Ron later confirmed, so no, this isn't appropriate.
>>
>> I heartily approve of this approach for pure linux FSs, the target
>ends
>> up without fragmentation.
>
>I answered the question with the information I had. Linux mailing
>list, Linux answer *shrug*.

I appreciate ALL the answers people provide.  I do have Linux, but I also have Windows.  I guess that complicates matters.

Sincerely,

Ron


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