Hi everyone,

I’ve just used Clonezilla for the first time to clone a 500gb ssd with only 83gb being used.

Since only 83gb were used, could I clone that system on a computer with only 128gb? Or does it need to have at least 500gb of space even if most of it wasn’t used on my original system?

Clonezilla seems really practical but isn’t so accessible and I haven’t found an answer to that question online 😇

I’m using Fedora 38 but I don’t think it really matters.

  • empireOfLove@lemmy.oneEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Depends on the kind of image, but if it is a true “clone” you cannot image a partition to a partition of smaller capacity directly due to filesystem and sector/cluster sizing things. Or at least clonezilla won’t let you by default. (Note I said partition, not drive.)

    The easy solution, assuming this is an upgrade and not a data recovery job, is to shrink the partitions on your larger drive to fit within the usable space envelope of the smaller drive before cloning. You can do this from windows disk management, or any Linux/Live USB that has gparted on it.