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Re: Does shrinking a partition lop off content at top of partition?

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In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage AndyHancock <andymhancock@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jan 7, 9:15 am, Arno <m...@privacy.net> wrote:
>> In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage AndyHancock <andymhanc...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> The target HDD is a bit smaller than the source HDD (500 vs 640
>>> GB), but both are way, way more than I ever expect to need.  The
>>> next step up is in the order of 750 GB, and way more expensive due
>>> to the current shortage of HDDs (heck even the 500GB was 3x normal
>>> price).  I intend to test the clone before relying on it.  Both
>>> Norton Ghost and Acronis True Image are capable of targeting a
>>> smaller partition during cloning, according to forum responses.
>>
>> You can also clone 1:1 partition by partition and shrink them
>> individually before cloning the next one.

> Hmm, never thought of that.  Unfortunately, the overwhelming majority
> of the source HDD is the C-drive partition, which is 559.5 GB (larger
> than the target HDD capacity of 500 GB).

Ok.

>> As to app, I made good experiences on two Win 7 installations
>> (Lenove T510i and Samsung  n140) shrinking the pre-install with
>> gparted on Linux. It does not clone though AFAIK.  (Could be
>> mistaken.)

> In general, how much can one extrapolate from partitioning experience
> with Linux to Windows?

Mostly. For the partitions themselves, fully, for the filesystems
by now shrinking NTFS also works with gparted. I am not sure about 
booting, as I put in grub (lagacy) anyways. While Grub does boot
Win7, administrating it from Windows is at least complicated, 
last I checked. For cloning 1:1, dd or dd_rescue works fine, of
course.

Arno
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Does shrinking a partition lop off content at top of partition? AndyHancock <andymhancock@gmail.com> - 2012-01-05 16:31 -0800
  Re: Does shrinking a partition lop off content at top of partition? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2012-01-06 17:57 +1100
  Re: Does shrinking a partition lop off content at top of partition? Arno <me@privacy.net> - 2012-01-06 09:46 +0000
    Re: Does shrinking a partition lop off content at top of partition? "john james" <jj@jj.com> - 2012-01-07 08:02 +1100
    Re: Does shrinking a partition lop off content at top of partition? AndyHancock <andymhancock@gmail.com> - 2012-01-06 21:55 -0800
      Re: Does shrinking a partition lop off content at top of partition? Arno <me@privacy.net> - 2012-01-07 14:15 +0000
        Re: Does shrinking a partition lop off content at top of partition? AndyHancock <andymhancock@gmail.com> - 2012-01-07 13:12 -0800
          Re: Does shrinking a partition lop off content at top of partition? Arno <me@privacy.net> - 2012-01-07 22:50 +0000
            Re: Does shrinking a partition lop off content at top of partition? AndyHancock <andymhancock@gmail.com> - 2012-01-08 16:27 -0800
  Re: Does shrinking a partition lop off content at top of partition? Winniethepooh@100acrewoods.net (GMAN) - 2012-01-06 16:39 +0000
    Re: Does shrinking a partition lop off content at top of partition? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2012-01-07 08:14 +1100
      Re: Does shrinking a partition lop off content at top of partition? Winniethepooh@100acrewoods.net (GMAN) - 2012-01-06 21:35 +0000
        Re: Does shrinking a partition lop off content at top of partition? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2012-01-07 14:46 +1100
          Re: Does shrinking a partition lop off content at top of partition? AndyHancock <andymhancock@gmail.com> - 2012-01-06 22:07 -0800
            Re: Does shrinking a partition lop off content at top of partition? Arno <me@privacy.net> - 2012-01-07 14:19 +0000
              Re: Does shrinking a partition lop off content at top of partition? "john james" <jj@jj.com> - 2012-01-08 06:28 +1100
                Re: Does shrinking a partition lop off content at top of partition? Arno <me@privacy.net> - 2012-01-07 22:51 +0000
            Re: Does shrinking a partition lop off content at top of partition? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2012-01-08 07:33 +1100
              Re: Does shrinking a partition lop off content at top of partition? AndyHancock <andymhancock@gmail.com> - 2012-01-07 13:31 -0800
          Re: Does shrinking a partition lop off content at top of partition? Winniethepooh@100acrewoods.net (GMAN) - 2012-01-07 15:44 +0000
            Re: Does shrinking a partition lop off content at top of partition? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2012-01-08 07:09 +1100
        Re: Does shrinking a partition lop off content at top of partition? Krypsis <krypsis@optusnet.com.au> - 2012-01-08 01:40 +1100
          Re: Does shrinking a partition lop off content at top of partition? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2012-01-08 06:54 +1100
          Re: Does shrinking a partition lop off content at top of partition? AndyHancock <andymhancock@gmail.com> - 2012-01-07 13:19 -0800
          Re: Does shrinking a partition lop off content at top of partition? Arno <me@privacy.net> - 2012-01-07 22:56 +0000

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