[ale] how do I clone a hard drive with clonezilla

[Ron Frazier (ALE)]

Hi all,

How do I make an exact sector by sector clone of a hard drive with clonezilla?

I want to clone /dev/sda, a 320 gb hard drive with several partitions and various file systems but only less than 300 gb allocated to the partitions

to

/dev/sdb, a 300 gb hard drive.

I want every partition to be copied exactly sector by sector to the 2nd drive.  I also want the mbr to be copied.  However, I want the unallocated space at the end of the drive to be ignored.  The big drive will have more than 20 gb at the end unallocated.  The small drive will have about 3 gb unallocated when done.

I know this can be done, because Acronis true image does it fine.

Every time I try it with clonezilla, it complains about the 2nd drive being too small and aborts.

I specifically want all sectors within all partitions to be copied, even unused ones.  But I don't want unallocated space at the end of the drive to be copied.

Any help would be appreciated.

Sincerely,

Ron


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