Re: DD To a Smaller Partition

["Jesús M. Navarro" <jesus.navarro@undominio.net>]

Hi, Hugo:

On Monday 10 January 2011 21:10:51 Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> Jesús M. Navarro wrote:
> > Hi, Hal:
> >
> > On Sunday 09 January 2011 20:21:22 Hal Vaughan wrote:
> >> I have a 10 GB partition that is nowhere near full, less than 5 GB of
> >> data on it (far less).  Unfortunately, the partition I'd like to copy it
> >> to is 5 GB.  I can do "rsync -av" but normally I'd use DD.  Is there a
> >> way to copy an image of just the files from one drive to another?  For
> >> example, an intelligent DD that won't copy unused sectors, or will
> >> create an archive of just the files?
> >
> > dd won't do that but partimage is probably the "intelligent dd" you are
> > looking for.
>
> But partimage will no restore to a smaller artition

I thought you could do that (it's a long time since I used partimage last 
time) but it seems you are right.  There's a workaround, though: you first 
restore to a partition big enough and the you use parted to reduce it to 
lower limits.

Cheers.