On 4 Nov 2022 at 23:10, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
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> Hi All,
>
> I am going to clone (Clonezilla) a Windows gpt
> mechanical drive to a smaller SSD drive. I am
> going into gparted (FEdora Xfce Live 36) and
> resizing the large partition (sda3, C:) so it
> will fit on the new ssd drive.
>
> Question: there is a tiny sda4 hanging out there,
> which is presume is the gpt partition tables. Do
> I also need to move sda4 to the end of sda3 or
> is it okay to just leave it at the end of the
> disk?
Think you need more info..
I would suggest booting from a fedora livecd or usb and
run.
sfdisk -l /dev/sda and see what it reports about
partitions.
My notebook here was originally on a regular disk, but
upgraded it to an sdd drive of the same size just using
clone option of my G4L project. Then used gparted to
reduce size of C: partition.
Sometimes windows machines have other partitions, that
contain restore partitions or partitions with programs
they add..
sfdisk /dev/sda -l
Disk /dev/sda: 931.51 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors
Disk model: WDC WDBNCE0010P
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x7c819ab2
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sda1 2048 39847935 39845888 19G 27 Hidden NTFS WinRE
/dev/sda2 * 39847936 40052735 204800 100M 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda3 40052736 379084799 339032064 161.7G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda4 379084800 1953523711 1574438912 750.8G 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 714633216 716730367 2097152 1G 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 716732416 724756479 8024064 3.8G 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda7 724758528 829616127 104857600 50G 83 Linux
/dev/sda8 829618176 1953523711 1123905536 535.9G 83 Linux
/dev/sda9 379086848 714631167 335544320 160G 83 Linux
Partition table entries are not in disk order.
Recently had a user that had a windows disk with 4
primary partition, but the only was tiny 100M and had a
couple of programs dated back to 2015.. Seemed some
kind of update utilities. Copied files to C: partition, and
then removed that partition. Was then able to install
Fedora after resizing the C: partiton.
>
> Many thanks,
> -T
>
>
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