tool to migrate disk from HDD to SDD

atux_null · 06-14-2021, 05:30 AM

i have some systems Laptops and desktops, that some are running Windows, other run Debian, while some others are dual boot and they have HDD disks. I would like to migrate them to sdd, but not the same size. For example the laptops have 500GB HDD that is used around 150GB. I would like to use 240GB SSD. I have used the dd tool before, but it needs the recipient disk to be the same or larger in size.
Is there any tool in Debian that i could use to migrate the HDDs to smaller SDD, please?

pan64 · 06-14-2021, 05:35 AM

for ext4 (and other natively supported filesystems) you can use rsync after partitioning and formatting.
I recommend windows to move ntfs partitions (together with attributes, permissions).

atux_null · 06-14-2021, 05:38 AM

is there any tool in total that it could do the whole job? eg as dd is doing for the sector to sector copy/paste?

syg00 · 06-14-2021, 06:28 AM

Clonezilla