Jtdylktuy

I have a 320G HDD(has a lot of free space), but planning to move my system to a smaller 275G SSD.
How can i do it without loosing data?
fdisk -l output

Disk /dev/sda: 298.1 GiB, 320072933376 bytes, 625142448 sectors

Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes

Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes

I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes

Disklabel type: gpt

Disk identifier: 3ADBB6B9-D132-427F-B2C5-9D3666CDB354



Device       Start       End   Sectors   Size Type

/dev/sda1     2048    411647    409600   200M EFI System

/dev/sda2   411648   2508799   2097152     1G Linux filesystem

/dev/sda3  2508800 625141759 622632960 296.9G Linux LVM









Disk /dev/mapper/fedora-root: 50 GiB, 53687091200 bytes, 104857600 sectors

Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes

Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes

I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes





Disk /dev/mapper/fedora-swap: 7.8 GiB, 8317304832 bytes, 16244736 sectors

Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes

Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes

I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes





Disk /dev/mapper/fedora-home: 189.1 GiB, 203092393984 bytes, 396664832 sectors

Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes

Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes

I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes

pvs output

  PV         VG     Fmt  Attr PSize   PFree 

  /dev/sda3  fedora lvm2 a--  296.89g 50.00g

vgs output

  VG     #PV #LV #SN Attr   VSize   VFree 

  fedora   1   3   0 wz--n- 296.89g 50.00g

lvs output

  LV   VG     Attr       LSize   Pool Origin Data%  Meta%  Move Log Cpy%Sync Convert

  home fedora -wi-ao---- 189.14g                                                    

  root fedora -wi-ao----  50.00g                                                    

  swap fedora -wi-ao----  <7.75g      

parted -l output

Disk /dev/sda: 320GB

Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B

Partition Table: gpt

Disk Flags: 



Number  Start   End     Size    File system  Name                  Flags

 1      1049kB  211MB   210MB   fat16        EFI System Partition  boot, esp

 2      211MB   1285MB  1074MB  ext4

 3      1285MB  320GB   319GB                                      lvm

Tried to do it with clonezilla, but failed because target drive is smaller

I've alwayes used GParted live CD/USB for this kind of tasks.

After booting, first shrink the existing LVM volumes to the needed sizes
(i.e. the size I want on the destination disk). Open a terminal and do (you might need sudo, I can't remember from memory!):

lvresize --verbose --resizefs -L NEWSIZE /dev/mapper/fedora-home

probably you need to shrink just the home partition, really. Don't forget to resize the physical volume, too:

pvresize --setphysicalvolumesize {some-space} /dev/sda3

Then do a simple copy/paste of the relevant partitions from the old to the new disk.

As an added bonus, GParted keeps the same UUIDs of the partitions from the old disk.