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1tb drive showing up as 237gb after cloning (midwest.social)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I was cloning my moms 237gb ssd to her new 1tb ssd on her windows 11 S computer using clonezilla and after booting into the 1tb drive it is showing up as 237gb. So I took out my live usb with gparted only to find out the partition used to store the data was indeed taking up 1tb. Is the a reason why it is not showing up as 1tb. Here are the options I choose to clone the drive if that helps. I also have some screenshots as well.

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File Explorer

Windows Disk Management

GParted

Clonezilla Steps I took

device to device
Expert mode
disk to local disk
Chose my soure and target drive
Left everything at default
skiped disk checking
-k1 Create partition table proportionally

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

Well the good news is, everything worked as designed!

You have a block by block full copy of one disc onto another disc.

Unfortunately some of those blocks also include partition information and sizing of the disc.

Don't do a block by block clone, use rsync or rclone to copy the files themselves to a new appropriately sized disc internally
Resize the partition of your new disk now that you've moved everything

Since you have the original disc, as long as you haven't written new data, try 2, and if that fails do 1