i don't think that's a bug. On 11/11/2012 01:40 PM, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > I had a failing disk and wanted to put things on a new disk that > happens to be smaller. I started by creating a clone, and then > tried to restore it on the new disk. > > I get the message: "ERROR: Output device too small (X) to fit the > NTFS image (Y)."
which is sensible, you cannot 'apply' a clone on a physically too small disk. > So then I tried to run ntfsresize on the image file, which also > fails. did you use a lo device and let ntfsresize operate on the device node? or, if it's not for a forensic use case (in which you simply wouldn't use a smaller than the original disk anyway in the first place), in your situation it would be better to format the new disk and copy (as in 'cp -a', not as in 'dump') the contents from the loop-mounted image over. > So I would like to have an option to either resize on restore on > resize an image file. in the light of kiss, i don't think it makese sense to add such functionality in ntfsclone as the desired behaviour can be easily acchieved by combining standard linux mechanisms. -- Address: Daniel Baumann, Donnerbuehlweg 3, CH-3012 Bern Email: daniel.baum...@progress-technologies.net Internet: http://people.progress-technologies.net/~daniel.baumann/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
