Subj : Shout out to Macrium
To   : All
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Thu Sep 23 2021 07:10 am

I was the last person on a SATA drive in my house -- because I had so many 
videos and MP3s, I didn't want to pay for a 1TB or larger SSD. I bought a 
Synology NAS, which I've talked about before, and moved my media to the RAID 
array on the NAS - which lets me stream media from DLNA devices in the house 
and puts the media on a more resilient drive.

After moving the media, I defragged the drive and got everything moved to 
the front of the disk, thinking I might make a Linux partition on it. I 
ended up with 190GB on a 3TB drive.

I had a 480GB SSD drive in an old laptop, and thought instead I'd shrink the 
SATA partition then clone it to the SSD.

I found Macrium Reflect, it's a free bit of disk cloning software.

*Without* shrinking the source partition and without having to boot into a 
special environment, I was able to make the SSD bootable and create a 
partition the size of the SSD with the data from the 3TB partition. Very 
cool having one less (potentially data-destructive) step to moving data.



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