Sure you can. It’s not the best way, but you can do it. dd will not auto expand the partitions to fill up the extra disk space. You can use gparted to resize the partitions after you restore. I use gparted on an Ubuntu install/boot/live cd since I always have a disk with me anyway.
Inside every clonezilla image, there is a file called sda-pt.parted. You can edit the sector size of /dev/sda to be smaller than your target hard drive. Here is how we do it: Install OS and programs Shrink partition in OS to lowest possible value (we find under 80 works best) Sysprep and clone Edit image/sda-pt.parted … Read more
dd is most certainly the best cloning tool, it will create a 100% replica simply by using the following command. I’ve never once had any problems with it. dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=32M Be aware that while cloning every byte, you should not use this on a drive or partition that is being used. Especially applications … Read more