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I use Clonezilla at my school to save and restore disk Ubuntu 12.04 and Windows images over LAN. When I try to restore an image to a computer with a disk whose size is not identical to the disk where the image was created, I cannot restore the image, even though it would clearly fit and work on this disk (i.e. restore a 7GB disk image from a 40GB disk to a 60GB disk). How can I force Clonezilla to do this?

HarlemSquirrel
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    Are you cloning disks or partitions? It may be useful to clone the partitions, even if there is only one partition in a disk. Restoring a smaller partition should work. – user68186 May 06 '13 at 16:28
  • You have to use the same size disk if you are restoring the entire disk (the MBR contains information about disk size, start and end of partitions, and, that I know, it will not work to restore the MBR on different sized disks). Your other option is to make a backup partition by partition. You can then restore the data within a partition on different sized disks so long as the partition is the same size. – Panther May 06 '13 at 19:14
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    So, if I am backing up partitions, do I need to set up partitions on the target disk before restoring? When I restore images, I want to wipe the disk clean each time. Also, I would need to include a swap partition, right? – HarlemSquirrel May 09 '13 at 13:38

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