Clonezilla m,ultiple drives to one

Roken · 2021-01-27 18:41:56

Hi all, my Googlefu is failing me.

I have, today, replaced my 1Tb Windows 10 spinner with an SSD. Dunno why, I hardly ever use it, but that's by the by.

As a part of my process, I re-tested my other drives (I still have two spinners in the system). For info, I have Arch on the NvME drive, /home on an SSD, a small SSD that used to have /home and can probably be re-purposed, now, the 1Tb SSD for Windows, and the two 500Gb spinners.

The 2 spinners are starting to give me SMART warnings, whilst the now replaced 1Tb spinner is in good health, so I figured 2 500Gb partitions on the 1Tb and remove the 500Gb drives before they fail.

I like clonezilla - it just works. But I can't figure out how to achieve the two drives into one using clonezilla. I know I could make images of the drives, but I want them as fully usable partitions. At least until I can afford at least one other SSD to replace the remaining spinners.

For info, the remaining spinners are data only, ext4 drives, but I really don't want to lose the data, and don't have sufficient backup capacity, so pre-fail action seems like the best option.

Can anyone point me to clonezilla instructions to clone each drive to partitions on the remaining and now redundant spinner?

d_fajardo · 2021-01-27 18:58:04

Might be easier to partition the 1Tb into 2 and copy the 500 drives via rsync or dd. Clonezilla is great but I find its use is best for cloning backup images you intend to keep but if you're just transferring files, you might as well just use rsync or dd.

Roken · 2021-01-27 19:08:00

You may be right. I like Clonezilla because it's quick, but perhaps I'll just resort to even cp -a

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Clonezilla m,ultiple drives to one

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