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On 11/4/22 23:41, Michael D. Setzer II via users wrote:
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Hi All,
I am going to clone (Clonezilla) a Windows gpt
mechanical drive to a smaller SSD drive. I am
going into gparted (FEdora Xfce Live 36) and
resizing the large partition (sda3, C:) so it
will fit on the new ssd drive.
Question: there is a tiny sda4 hanging out there,
which is presume is the gpt partition tables. Do
I also need to move sda4 to the end of sda3 or
is it okay to just leave it at the end of the
disk?
Think you need more info..
I would suggest booting from a fedora livecd or usb and run.
sfdisk -l /dev/sda and see what it reports about partitions.
My notebook here was originally on a regular disk, but upgraded it to an
sdd drive of the same size just using clone option of my G4L project.
Then used gparted to reduce size of C: partition.
Sometimes windows machines have other partitions, that contain restore
partitions or partitions with programs they add..
sfdisk /dev/sda -l
Disk /dev/sda: 931.51 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors
Disk model: WDC WDBNCE0010P
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x7c819ab2
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sda1 2048 39847935 39845888 19G 27 Hidden NTFS WinRE
/dev/sda2 * 39847936 40052735 204800 100M 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda3 40052736 379084799 339032064 161.7G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda4 379084800 1953523711 1574438912 750.8G 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 714633216 716730367 2097152 1G 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 716732416 724756479 8024064 3.8G 82 Linux swap /
Solaris
/dev/sda7 724758528 829616127 104857600 50G 83 Linux
/dev/sda8 829618176 1953523711 1123905536 535.9G 83 Linux
/dev/sda9 379086848 714631167 335544320 160G 83 Linux
Partition table entries are not in disk order.
Recently had a user that had a windows disk with 4 primary partition,
but the only was tiny 100M and had a couple of programs dated back to
2015.. Seemed some kind of update utilities. Copied files to C:
partition, and then removed that partition. Was then able to install
Fedora after resizing the C: partiton.
Awesome command! Thank you!
Look like is "Windows recovery environment"
# sfdisk /dev/sda -l
Disk /dev/sda: 60 GiB, 64424509440 bytes, 125829120 sectors
Disk model: QEMU HARDDISK
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: AA20003C-A3D4-40FD-AE52-C7BE154FCBBE
Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/sda1 2048 206847 204800 100M EFI System
/dev/sda2 206848 239615 32768 16M Microsoft reserved
/dev/sda3 239616 124530687 124291072 59.3G Microsoft basic data
/dev/sda4 124530688 125822975 1292288 631M Windows recovery environment
Interesting that it doesn't show partitions type id like it
does for a dos partition scheme. Also, know dos partition
sceem only support 4 primary partitions, but gpt probable
does have that limit??
With dos, you can have 3 primary and then a primary that
is an extended partition and it can then have a bunch of
logical partition.
Once had my computer lab at college get 20 new
machines all identical. But one had disk show as slightly
smaller due to bad sectores. Used that machine to image
to all the others since direct clone works copying a
smaller disk to a larger one.
Not doing more than basic testing with gpt, you might
want to resize the C: and then move the 4th partition to
next to it.
Good Luck.
GPT has a max of 128 primary partitions.
In the job I am up to, I will clonezilla
to a second internal drive saved as a file.
Create a raid1 volume and clone it back.
Then readjust with gparted.
I want the C: partition as small as possible
to start with to shave time and space.
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