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.

  • Dariusmiles2123OP
    3·
    1 year ago

    But witch partition should I shrink?

    The source BTRFS one with my Fedora installation? And then leave the small ext4 and EFI ones that were automatically created during installation untouched?

    If I resize my Fedora partition with Gparted it’s gonna keep its data and not get erased?

    • empireOfLove@lemmy.oneEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      Yes. Resize your main large data partition (the one with all the free space) but make it small enough that it plus all other partitions will fit on the destination disk.

      Resizing it should not lose any data. As long as it’s an unecrypted filesystem your Linux install can mount, and that gparted can see used/free space inside, it will only resize free space. However, as with all things- make a damn backup if you actually want to keep that data.