I had a failing disk and wanted to put things on a new disk that happens to be smaller. I started by creating a clone, and then tried to restore it on the new disk.
Currently resizing + cloning in a single step is not possible. Restoring from a compact image + resizing is not technically feasable, because resizing requires random access to the layout data, which is scattered and not seekable in the compact image format. A possible direction would be to make compact images mountable in read-only mode, but your problem will have vanished before this is done. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
