clonezilla moving to bigger harddrive

Question

I successfully cloned my hard drive from 250gb to 1Tb using -k1 on expert mode. but when I explore the folders, why is it still acting like a 250 gb hard drive. It is still showing that 180gb available as it was showing same when it was 250gb any idea what I am missing?

I am running centos linux

Answer 1

Clonezilla copied the data from your original disk to the target disk exactly, including your partition table. You now have to resize your partition.

You can either use something like gparted, or you can use fdisk if you're feeling lucky to expand the partition to take up the entire disk and then resize your filesystem with resize2fs or the like.

Answer 2

GParted is a good partition program but it did not work in my case, since I had to deal with LVM file system.

By guidance of 'baumgart' the lifesaver, I managed to resize /dev/VG0/var with the following three steps:

1. pvresize --setphysicalvolumesize 700G /dev/sda1 (resize sda1 to 700Gigabytes)

2. lvextend -L +500G /dev/VG0/var (add 500Gigabytes top on existing)

3. resize2fs /dev/VG0/var

This is done after clonezilla expert mode -k1 is applied.

Answer 3

Use a tool like Parted Magic to resize the partition and take advantage of the full space.