How to use clonezilla to copy just one partition?

[Brian Cluff]

There are a zillion ways to do what you want, but this is how I usually 
do it since it doesn't require any extra special software:
Boot, both computers with a bootable CD that will get you on the net, a 
[kx]ubuntu install CD works fine.

On the destination machine install and/or start an ssh server.
Then set a password for the root user.
Next find the partitions that you want to copy from and to on the machines.
Then just issue a command like:
cat /dev/sda1 |ssh root at 192.168.0.50 'cat >/dev/sda2'

* Replace /dev/sda1 with the partition that you want to copy from
* Replace /dev/sda2 with the partition on the destination machine you 
want to copy to.
* replace 192.168.0.50 with the IP address of the destination machine.

After running that just sit back and relax, it's going to take a long 
time!  It's also not going to show you any sort of progress meter.

If you would like some sort of progress you could install pv (pipe view) 
on the source machine and then change the line to:
cat /dev/sda1 |pv |ssh root at 192.168.0.50 'cat >/dev/sda2'

That will allow you to see how much data has passed thought the pipe. 
You can also give pv a size and then it will give you all sorts of extra 
information.

If you have the option of removing one or both of the drives so that 
they can be attached to the same computer, something that I highly 
recommend if it's an option since it will greatly reduce the amount of 
time waiting for the copy, you can just use dd or even cat.

Just do something like:
cat /dev/sda1 >/dev/sdb1

Then sit back and relax.  It will probably take 1 or 2 hours to copy 
100gig.  If you use a 100Mb network, then it will take all day for the 
same amount of data... use a 1000Mb network if you have the option.

No matter which method you use, just make sure that the destination 
partition is the exact same size or bigger or you will run into 
troubles.  You can always hit the destination partition with resize2fs 
(in the e2fsprogs package) after you have copied it to have it use up 
all the rest of the unused space.  If you are using EXT4 you can even do 
the resize, live on a running system.

Hope that helps,
Brian Cluff

On 01/03/2013 12:04 PM, joe at actionline.com wrote:
> After reading and watching several youtube tutorials about clonezilla,
> remastersys, relinux, monodorescue, maketecheasier, live-magic,
> linux-live, revisor, instalinux, and several more, I am thoroughly
> confused. The best tutorial I've seen so far was this one:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=490n_VoldUg -- however, it shows how to do
> a complete system backup and restore and does not explain how to clone a
> single partition from one system and install that partition on a different
> system in a dual-boot arrangement.
>
> I have Kubuntu Linux installed on an IBM Thinkpad and I would like to
> install that Linux partition on my Lenovo Q150 net-top on which I have
> shrunk the windows-7 partition to half of the 250-gig HD and created
> 100-gig of free space on the rest of that HD so as to have both available
> in a dual-boot arrangement. Do I need to install Kubuntu on the Lenovo
> first? Or what is the best procedure to achieve the desired dual-boot?
>
>
>
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