How to properly clone a system image to a smaller drive?

Question

linux

Hello. I have a 16gb flash drive with a Linux system. The occupied space on it is about 6gb. How can I properly clone this system to an 8gb flash drive?

Answer 1

1. Run gparted, truncate the partition on the flash drive (it can take quite a long time, if you need it quickly - make an image of the flash drive to your hard drive via dd and work with it).
2. Copy the partition table from the old flash drive to the new one via sfdisk + 446 bytes at the beginning of the disk or via gdisk
3. Copy the partition via partclone or dd.

Answer 2

dd, then fix the partition sizes (there was a similar question somewhere recently, it was more detailed there)

Answer 3

in fact, there are a lot of articles in Google through both dd and archivers

Answer 4

Read about gentoo stage 4 and migrate the installed system by analogy.

Answer 5

Damn, gparted refuses to resize the partition (the partition has the boot flag) This is the first time for me!

Answer 6

Acronis.