Subj : Re: multi-partition hdd to larger ssd
To   : August Abolins
From : Mark Hofmann
Date : Mon Jan 09 2023 07:15:38


AA> I think EaseUS will be my cloning tool of choice. It even
AA> allows me to re-allocate the partition sizes BEFORE I do the
AA> clone, if I want.

That program is really good and I have used it many times.  

I ran into an issue I never experienced in the past.  I was growing a large NTFS partition on one of my arrays.  It was going from 62TB to 98TB.  I had to change the cluster size on the NTFS partition to 32KB in order to do that.

EaseUS will automatically do that, or you can also select it as an option to just change the default cluster size.  The one thing to keep in mind however, is this takes A LONG TIME to complete.  With a partition that large, probably weeks.  

It ended up being faster for me to re-create the partition from scratch and re-copy everything.

- Mark

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