On 03/25/2012 04:17 PM, jumpingspo...@hushmail.com wrote: > I may have used the term "geometry" too loosely, but the impression I > got was that at least the partition sizes had to be the same. But your > experience suggests that they can actually be larger, which might make > it easier for me. I will be doing this test soon. > > Bill, do you have experience with restoring Windows 7? I was thinking I > should make 2 partitions on the smaller destination drive that were > clearly larger than the 2 partitions on my source drive, then try to > restore that way and see if I still have problems. This is something I > haven't tried yet, and it seems to be working well for you. I honestly > don't care if Windows 7's boot partition is 100 MiB or 150 MiB, as long > as everything else works properly; unless there's a reason for the exact > size. > > Here's one more thing I thought of: Do you think Clonezilla is smart > enough to choose which partition to restore to? Say there's a 20 GB > partition and a 100 MB partition on the source drive, and then I make a > 25 GB partition and a 150 MB partition on the destination drive to be > safe. Would Clonezilla be smart enough to know the 100 MB partition > should be restored to the 150 MB partition instead of the 25 GB one? I > didn't see an option that let me choose when I was restoring.
If I understand your question correctly, then yes, clonezilla is smart enough to do this. However, it's basing it on the numbers assigned in the partition table. For example, for a linux (clonezilla) boot, these partitions are normally going to be seen as: /dev/sda1 NTFS 100MB /dev/sda2 NTFS many GB (I'm assuming that we're looking at the simplest situation where there are only primary partitions.) As long as the small Win7 "boot partition" is the first one, and the main partition is the second one, as in the image, then it will work, if the partitions are AT LEAST AS LARGE. That's why I usually make them very slightly larger, just to be sure. In other words, clonezilla is not doing any "figuring out" of which one is which; you just have to make sure the partitions are in the correct order. In my example above, if you created the partitions so that you had sda1 and then an extended partition (sda2?) that included the other big partition (sda3?), then clonezilla might give you errors. This is usually not a concern, unless you have more partitions to deal with, such as in a dual-operating system boot situation. BTW, I don't think you would need to go as large as you suggest. You could make the 100MB partition 110MB, maybe even 105MB. -Bill- --------------------------------------------- Bill Gurley, Technical Director Department of Chemistry Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville 865-974-3145 (office) --------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure _______________________________________________ Clonezilla-live mailing list Clonezilla-live@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clonezilla-live
