Cloning Hard drive to smaller SSD [duplicate]
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I have a 146GB HDD in one of my servers that I want to replace with a 120GB SSD. Can I just clone the drive with dd and have it boot just fine? Are there any repurcussions to cloning to a smaller drive? (The drive is nowhere near full so there shouldn't be much at the end of the disk). The server itself only had whatever partitions Proxmox sets up when it installs.
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I have a 146GB HDD in one of my servers that I want to replace with a 120GB SSD. Can I just clone the drive with dd and have it boot just fine? Are there any repurcussions to cloning to a smaller drive? (The drive is nowhere near full so there shouldn't be much at the end of the disk). The server itself only had whatever partitions Proxmox sets up when it installs.
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Most cloning tools handle this just fine. Have you tried it?
– music2myear
Nov 24 at 4:12
@music2myear not yet because the hard drive hasn't come in yet.
– cclloyd
Nov 24 at 4:27
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Possible duplicate of Can you clone a larger drive onto a smaller drive (used space fits on the smaller). Additional solutions on this question (closed because it explicitly asked for product recommendations: superuser.com/questions/99211/free-way-to-clone-hdd-to-ssd
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Nov 25 at 1:25
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I have a 146GB HDD in one of my servers that I want to replace with a 120GB SSD. Can I just clone the drive with dd and have it boot just fine? Are there any repurcussions to cloning to a smaller drive? (The drive is nowhere near full so there shouldn't be much at the end of the disk). The server itself only had whatever partitions Proxmox sets up when it installs.
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This question already has an answer here:
Can you clone a larger drive onto a smaller drive (used space fits on the smaller)
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I have a 146GB HDD in one of my servers that I want to replace with a 120GB SSD. Can I just clone the drive with dd and have it boot just fine? Are there any repurcussions to cloning to a smaller drive? (The drive is nowhere near full so there shouldn't be much at the end of the disk). The server itself only had whatever partitions Proxmox sets up when it installs.
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Can you clone a larger drive onto a smaller drive (used space fits on the smaller)
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Most cloning tools handle this just fine. Have you tried it?
– music2myear
Nov 24 at 4:12
@music2myear not yet because the hard drive hasn't come in yet.
– cclloyd
Nov 24 at 4:27
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Possible duplicate of Can you clone a larger drive onto a smaller drive (used space fits on the smaller). Additional solutions on this question (closed because it explicitly asked for product recommendations: superuser.com/questions/99211/free-way-to-clone-hdd-to-ssd
– fixer1234
Nov 25 at 1:25
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Most cloning tools handle this just fine. Have you tried it?
– music2myear
Nov 24 at 4:12
@music2myear not yet because the hard drive hasn't come in yet.
– cclloyd
Nov 24 at 4:27
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Possible duplicate of Can you clone a larger drive onto a smaller drive (used space fits on the smaller). Additional solutions on this question (closed because it explicitly asked for product recommendations: superuser.com/questions/99211/free-way-to-clone-hdd-to-ssd
– fixer1234
Nov 25 at 1:25
Most cloning tools handle this just fine. Have you tried it?
– music2myear
Nov 24 at 4:12
Most cloning tools handle this just fine. Have you tried it?
– music2myear
Nov 24 at 4:12
@music2myear not yet because the hard drive hasn't come in yet.
– cclloyd
Nov 24 at 4:27
@music2myear not yet because the hard drive hasn't come in yet.
– cclloyd
Nov 24 at 4:27
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Possible duplicate of Can you clone a larger drive onto a smaller drive (used space fits on the smaller). Additional solutions on this question (closed because it explicitly asked for product recommendations: superuser.com/questions/99211/free-way-to-clone-hdd-to-ssd
– fixer1234
Nov 25 at 1:25
Possible duplicate of Can you clone a larger drive onto a smaller drive (used space fits on the smaller). Additional solutions on this question (closed because it explicitly asked for product recommendations: superuser.com/questions/99211/free-way-to-clone-hdd-to-ssd
– fixer1234
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So you should be able to resize the current drive that you have and that way the clone can be successful. Then you can use clonezilla copy the image to an external and then copy the image to the new disk.If you are not using the space anyways the partition can be resized to match the new hard drive. Here is an example using clonezilla and gparted but you should be able to do the same thing with windows using their disk management utility.
https://www.geekyprojects.com/storage/how-to-clone-hard-drive-to-smaller-drive/
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So you should be able to resize the current drive that you have and that way the clone can be successful. Then you can use clonezilla copy the image to an external and then copy the image to the new disk.If you are not using the space anyways the partition can be resized to match the new hard drive. Here is an example using clonezilla and gparted but you should be able to do the same thing with windows using their disk management utility.
https://www.geekyprojects.com/storage/how-to-clone-hard-drive-to-smaller-drive/
answered Nov 24 at 7:20
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So you should be able to resize the current drive that you have and that way the clone can be successful. Then you can use clonezilla copy the image to an external and then copy the image to the new disk.If you are not using the space anyways the partition can be resized to match the new hard drive. Here is an example using clonezilla and gparted but you should be able to do the same thing with windows using their disk management utility.
https://www.geekyprojects.com/storage/how-to-clone-hard-drive-to-smaller-drive/
answered Nov 24 at 7:20
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So you should be able to resize the current drive that you have and that way the clone can be successful. Then you can use clonezilla copy the image to an external and then copy the image to the new disk.If you are not using the space anyways the partition can be resized to match the new hard drive. Here is an example using clonezilla and gparted but you should be able to do the same thing with windows using their disk management utility.
https://www.geekyprojects.com/storage/how-to-clone-hard-drive-to-smaller-drive/
answered Nov 24 at 7:20
GoldenWest
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So you should be able to resize the current drive that you have and that way the clone can be successful. Then you can use clonezilla copy the image to an external and then copy the image to the new disk.If you are not using the space anyways the partition can be resized to match the new hard drive. Here is an example using clonezilla and gparted but you should be able to do the same thing with windows using their disk management utility.
https://www.geekyprojects.com/storage/how-to-clone-hard-drive-to-smaller-drive/
answered Nov 24 at 7:20
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answered Nov 24 at 7:20
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answered Nov 24 at 7:20
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did my answer suffice?
– GoldenWest
Nov 26 at 17:49
did my answer suffice?
– GoldenWest
Nov 26 at 17:49
did my answer suffice?
– GoldenWest
Nov 26 at 17:49
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Most cloning tools handle this just fine. Have you tried it?
– music2myear
Nov 24 at 4:12
@music2myear not yet because the hard drive hasn't come in yet.
– cclloyd
Nov 24 at 4:27
3
Possible duplicate of Can you clone a larger drive onto a smaller drive (used space fits on the smaller). Additional solutions on this question (closed because it explicitly asked for product recommendations: superuser.com/questions/99211/free-way-to-clone-hdd-to-ssd
– fixer1234
Nov 25 at 1:25