[Gllug] dd'ing a nearly empty disk to a SMALLER disk - is it possible?

[Malcolm Blackmore]

Thanks all. As the disk is so empty I would be very surprised if any
sectors have been written above the 300gb mark so I am going to
shrink /home to make a 300gb "disk" and dd that to the brand new 320gb
disk and then gparted that to take up the full size of the disk. 

Seems the easiest route. 

If there are any MS certification problems I will have to sort them out
as suggested but I transferred one fujitsu 40gb disk to a new 80gb disk
on another sibling machine from the same batch of 4 and never had a
problem. But then no one uses windows on the network, I've disabled
that, just for games like The Sims and so forth. All internal and
external networking is done on a reboot to Linux, mix of Linux Mint and
plain Ubuntu according to user preferences amongst the family.

Cheers

On Sun, 2010-10-31 at 18:28 +0000, Malcolm Blackmore wrote:
> I need to transfer the contents of a nearly empty windows/linux
> partitioned 500gb disk to a 320gb disk mirroring the windows-root-home
> structure. There is less than 150gb actual content on this 500gb disk.
> This is to transfer the windows XP which there are no disks to reinstall
> the pre-installed XP that was on the original 40gb disk of the fujitsu -
> which was replaced with a larger disk. That was no problem, of course.
> But I bought 4x of these P4 computers for 50 quid the lot and now one of
> the disks in one of them has died and I have 3 spare 320gb sata disks to
> use.
> 
> Is this possible? How can I get the partitions and their contents,
> especially the XP which is vital to my 13 year old daughters SIMS
> playing(!) and a printer driver which is no longer available on the web
> for the linux root partitions.
> 



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