Hi, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 08:28:27AM +0100, Jean-Pierre André wrote: >> Oh, I did not realize you meant resizing and cloning >> to another drive in a single step... It might be simpler >> to just copy the files. >> >> When resizing in place, any data located beyond the >> target size is relocated, including metadata. There is >> nothing special to do for the backup MFT. >> > Thanks for clarifying this. > >>> Looking at the man pages for both the utilities, it seems that I have to >>> use ntfsclone to an image and then shrink the fs on that image and then >>> place in the 250GB drive. >> Currently you have to do the resizing in place, and in >> your situation you have to clone to a sparse file. >> You will need double space in the sparse file, as it will >> contain both the original data and the relocated one. >> Resizing will not improve the fragmentation. >> > Sorry, I did not understand this. Does this mean the resizing happens at > the source in place?
Yes, the main purpose for ntfsresize is to shorten a preinstalled Windows partition to make space for another OS. > This might not be possible in our case as the > source is connected to a write blocker that drops all writes to the > disk. And how does cloning to a sparse file work? To clone to a sparse file you only have to designate a standard file as the target for ntfsclone, instead of a device. Regards Jean-Pierre > Thanks again for the help, > Amit > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subversion Kills Productivity. Get off Subversion & Make the Move to Perforce. With Perforce, you get hassle-free workflows. Merge that actually works. Faster operations. Version large binaries. Built-in WAN optimization and the freedom to use Git, Perforce or both. Make the move to Perforce. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=122218951&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ ntfs-3g-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ntfs-3g-devel
