This is a discussion on ntfsclone query within the Linux General forums, part of the Linux Forums category; Hi, Can I restore a NTFS backup to a partition of different size (from the original NTFS partition) using ntfsclone ...
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You can restore to a larger partition but not to a smaller one.
However if you shrink NTFS first (no need to shrink the partition) then you can restore to a smaller partition as well. The steps: ntfsresize --size small_enough_size partition1 ntfsclone --force --output myntfs.img partition1 # backup ntfsclone --force --overwrite partition2 myntfs.img # restore somewhere else ntfsresize --force partition2 # adjust NTFS to the new partition size |