You seem to have it now.
Understand that clonezilla is basically an excellent collection of scripts
and programs.
When doing a whole disk, it grabs the mbr and partition table. Each
partition it finds gets processed sequentially and separately.
the problem of large to small disk is more a problem of ntfsclone and
partimage that clonezilla uses to clone an ntfs partition. As long as each
instance of ntfs partition has room to fit you're good to go.
As far as unpartitioned space, as long as it is on the back end, it gets
ignored by clonezilla.
Regards,
Gary Smithe
On Mar 20, 2012 9:01 PM, <jumpingspo...@hushmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
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