| Is that possible I can restore to smaller HDD when the image was taken from bigger one? Or to clone a larger disk to a smaller one? |
This is always a challenge to Clonezilla because it's block-based tool, not file-based one.
Two possible solutions:
- Method 1: If you are sure the used data blocks on the source disk are within the disk boundary of destination one, yes, it's possible to make that with the options "-k1" and "-icds" enabled in the expert mode.
- Method 2: Use Clonezilla live >= 2.6.7-28 or 20200703-focal. For older version it does not always work.
- First use GParted live to resize and move the partitions in the source disk, and make all partitions to be equal to or smaller than the size of that in the destination disk. You have to make sure the boundary of last partition in the source disk is within the limit of destination disk.
- Then boot Clonezilla live.
For disk to disk, follow this.
For image to disk, follow this.
The only difference is, just remember to choose expert mode, and enable "-icds" (Remember to choose "-k0", i.e., use the partition table from source).
Some discussions and results can be found here:
- Use experience from DGP
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