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How to decrease virtual size/capacity of a Virtualbox vdi file

Deallocate space at the end of disk in guest OS, where space >= size(source-disk) - size(new-disk). Typically by shrinking last partition. Turn off virtual machine. Create new Virtual Box disk ...
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Extracting files from Clonezilla images

I've written a program called clonezilla-util which can mount Clonezilla archives in Windows. You can mount to a drive letter using this command (requires the Dokan driver): clonezilla-util.exe mount -...
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Clonezilla restore MBR disk to 4TB disk (convert to GPT) -- LINUX (not Windows!)

Lots of experimentation and trial and error. However here is a tested working solution when restoring my Ubuntu 14.04 MBR image to a 4TB disk: This should also work if you're just trying to convert a ...
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How to convert clonezilla backup image to virtual machine?

Here are the steps: Create New Virtual Machine and boot from clonezilla ISO image of CD. Restore clonezilla image like normal procedure.
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What is the best way to restore ubuntu on a new server with SSD hd and RAID?

Important things first; you seem to have a misconception about RAID. RAID is no backup, what ever disk layout you end up choosing, you'll need to make external backups of your data if you care for it. ...
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How to clone Linux hard drive to smaller flash drive

You haven't specified much about your disk layout so I am going to make some assumptions. Please modify for your application, or provide the additional details and I can edit this. Assumptions: 1 ...
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Disabling PC Speaker Beep on Clonezilla Launch

This feature is for the blind. If this really annoys you. You can turn of it by doing the following: If your machine boots from legacy bios, edit the file /syslinux/syslinux.cfg on your USB flash ...
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Windows 10 installation on Dell T7600 with PERC H310 Raid Controller

Edit: a new version of Windows 10 Pro for Workstations could maybe help you out this fall too if you can wait. Windows 10 Pro for Workstations is a high-end edition of Windows 10 Pro, comes with ...
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What is the best way to restore ubuntu on a new server with SSD hd and RAID?

You can try installing the same OS to the new server and using rsync to migrate all data. rsync -avzAXS --numeric-ids --progress --exclude={lib/modules,etc/udev,lib/udev,boot,dev,proc,sys,run,etc/...
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How to decrease virtual size/capacity of a Virtualbox vdi file

In my case I had a windows VM with 50GB vdi to shrink to 20GB. I have tried Andre Figueiredo solution but I had a problem with the cloned vdi. When I apply Andre Figueiredo solution and attach the ...
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How to decrease virtual size/capacity of a Virtualbox vdi file

In the end I managed to solve this puzzle in a unexpected easy way using the preinstalled command line utility dd see Disk Cloning. As shown below I now have my 160GB drive in my guest OS stored in a ...
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Prepare a disk to be imaged by Clonezilla for use on smaller disks?

We started using a 64Gb SSD to build our images. We have a drive reserved for this purpose. When building a new image, we first put this drive in the computer to be used as a template. We find this ...
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Extracting files from Clonezilla images

7-Zip can unpack most images (which looks much like unpacking a regular .zip archive). It supports almost all common filesystems (FAT, NTFS, ext3, ext4,...). Note that for compressed multi-part images ...
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clonezilla: "`/home/partimage` is full"

I know that is a very old question but I found it by googling the error. I had the very same message and in my case the problem was that the harddrive was formatted in FAT32 and max file size was ...
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How to decrease virtual size/capacity of a Virtualbox vdi file

I believe this solution is extremely dangerous! It relies upon all the files being in the first 153 GB of the original 300 GB partition. The dd command does not copy files. It simply copies ALL blocks ...
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Clonezilla from single USB stick / pen

The way I do it for custom loaders is to setup ocs_live_run="/lib/live/mount/medium/MyScript.sh" in the syslinux/syslinux.cfg Drop MyScript.sh onto the root of the flash drive. Drop your image into ...
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What steps are needed after cloning from a image Ubuntu to new system? (sysprep, unconfig)

Look at virt-sysprep from the guestfs-tools package. virt-sysprep is a bash script to reset/unconfigure/sysprep a VM so clones can be made safely. From the manual: Virt-sysprep can reset or ...
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What is the best way to restore ubuntu on a new server with SSD hd and RAID?

In case you have several partitions on 500 drive (/sda1 as /, /sda2 as home, /sda3 /var etc.) try run clonezilla to create and save drive using separate image file for each partition. Therefore, when ...
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Windows 10 drive cloned from Clonezilla image will not boot

My guess is that the boot manager is using a target partition for Windows that is now unable to find, like C:, but while on the cloned image the layout is maybe modified, and it can be on like D: I ...
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Create single file on clonezilla?

Clonezilla had dd for creating raw image just start image creation as expert and use the priority selection dd -> other instead partclone -> disk image -> dd to create a single image on the section ...
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Sequence of Windows OS files read at the time of installation

I figured out the solution: sudo vim /etc/tftp.remap Add the following lines: # Map the paths r ^\\boot\\ EFI/winpe/Boot/ r ^\\Boot\\ EFI/winpe/Boot/ r ^\\sources\\ EFI/winpe/sources/ # Convert ...
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Sequence of Windows OS files read at the time of installation

I have absolutly no confidence that the default windows EFI bootloader is able to boot from a PXE/tftp system but there are a few thing that need to be verified first: the module msdos_part is ...
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What steps are needed after cloning from a image Ubuntu to new system? (sysprep, unconfig)

If you intend to deploy the image in the same network you should check if you have a static ip address on /etc/network/interfaces and change, if necessary, the configuration for a another ip address ...
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How do I make Clonezilla Server (DRBL) restore to only one machine in a network?

Collect clients' MAC addresses and use those to divide clients into different groups and then perform the installation. https://wiki.epfl.ch/icit/internal/clonezilla/installconfig
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What is the best way to restore ubuntu on a new server with SSD hd and RAID?

Warning! before you do anything! When you want to use clonezilla or any other tool what process the data from A disk to B disk. You should resize partitions of your A disk (500GB HDD) to maximal size ...
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Restore GRUB2 after Clonezilla

First, you enter commands on the GRUB prompt to boot the system: root (hd0,msdos1) linux /vmlinuz-3.10.0-327.22.2.el7.x86_64 root=/dev/sda2 <other options> initrd /initramfs-3.10.0-327.22.2.el7....
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How to decrease virtual size/capacity of a Virtualbox vdi file

I did the same as @goamn except I used the free version of NIUBI partition editor inside of my windows VM, which allowed me to shrink the C drive partition and then move the free space to the end. ...
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How to decrease virtual size/capacity of a Virtualbox vdi file

As others have mentioned, Andre Figueiredo's answer is luck based as there is no guarantee that the "first X gb" of space is your space, unless you defrag, in which case it's still risky. Paul Hursky'...
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Images (e.g. with Clonezilla) of Windows and Linux on a UEFI computer

When you clone the disk you will want to copy all of the partitions. If you just copy the data partitions without the boot partitions, the reimaged computer will not boot. If you create the EFI ...
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Offline identification of Windows version in a Linux environment

Using Linux, here Ubuntu, you can use chntpw. I did this: sudo apt install chntpw chntpw -e /path/to/windisk/Windows/System32/config/SOFTWARE cat \Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProductName and ...
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