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clone ext3 partitions to smaller disk
- 01-23-2013
- rickyleroy2011
January 23, 2013, 6:45 am

I need to clone EXT3 partions to new smaller hard disk.
I thought to create manually partition table (by fdisk) on my new disk with
correct partitions size, then I will copy every partition content by followed
command:
cp -dpPR <source> <destination>
or
find . -mount0 -print0 | cpio -0dump <destination>
I wish to use whole size of my new disk which will host the new resized
partitions.
I thought to reduce by Gparted partitions on original disk but it's very
difficult to get exact size which correspond to new disk size.
Suggestions ?
I thought to create manually partition table (by fdisk) on my new disk with
correct partitions size, then I will copy every partition content by followed
command:
cp -dpPR <source> <destination>
or
find . -mount0 -print0 | cpio -0dump <destination>
I wish to use whole size of my new disk which will host the new resized
partitions.
I thought to reduce by Gparted partitions on original disk but it's very
difficult to get exact size which correspond to new disk size.
Suggestions ?
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