Need help with restoring a Clonezilla image to larger partition
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Need help with restoring a Clonezilla image to larger partition
I'm trying to restore an image from a 40gb partition(6gb used) to a 100gb partition. I set everything up in gparted and and restored the partition image with clonezilla. In gparted, the partition shows the full 100gb partition with 6gb used, however when I boot windows and open the properties on the C: partition, it shows that it's only 40gb. Is there some setting to restore the partition image and use the full 100gb?
Seems like Clonezilla did not resize the filesystem for you. You will need to resize it yourself. If it's NTFS, you can use Windows Vista/7's build in resize option. In Linux you can use ntfsresize.
Seems like Clonezilla did not resize the filesystem for you. You will need to resize it yourself. If it's NTFS, you can use Windows Vista/7's build in resize option. In Linux you can use ntfsresize.
I used the options for clonezilla to resize it, but I guess it doesn't want to. I don't own a copy of Vista or 7 so I'll have to use ntfsresize. I'll see if it's on the clonezilla live CD or on the Parted Magic CD. I'll eventually install Ubuntu on another partition once I get this straightened out on this laptop.
When resizing a partition, first the partition itself is extended, then only the filesystem inside is extended. It should have resized the filesystem, but somehow it failed to do it. Possible because the filesystem was unclean. I don't know if Clonezilla LiveCD includes ntfsresize (it should)
Filesystem marked unclean means it was probably not shutdown properly.
Such as if you force shutdown with the power button or unplug an external drive without safe removal / unmounting first.
You will need to make it clean before you can even mount it in Linux. If you have windows, just boot into windows & run a chkdsk on the drive & then shutdown properly. (this is the best option) If not, in Linux you'll need to install ntfsprogs & run ntfsfix on the partition. ntfsfix is not a complete chkdsk replacement & cannot repair all errors, so running chkdsk is better if possible.
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