Hi all. I have been running Astaro at home on a Foxconn "barebones" Atom D525 system I bought from Newegg for under $100. When I built it the cheapest and smallest drive I found was a WD caviar blue SATA III 500 Gb (obviously pre-Thailand flood). It is WAY overkill as I am only using about 15 Gb of it. I am now in the process of building my son a budget gaming machine and cheap hard drives are nowhere to be found (thanks to previously mentioned Thailand flooding). I then remembered that I recently upgraded my PS3 hard drive, so the old 60Gb 2.5 SATA notebook drive that I removed from it is sitting idle and available.
My plan is to replace the 500gb 3.5 WD drive currently in use by Astaro with the 2.5 60Gb drive from the PS3 (using a 2.5 to 3.5 drive bay adapter to hold it in place). 60Gb should be more than enough space for Astaro and the drop from 7200 to 5400 rpm shouldn't make much of a difference.
I have an external USB enclosure I can temporarily put the 60Gb PS3 drive into. Would it be best to do that, boot the Astaro box with my USB drive full of linux tools and image the current 500Gb drive to the 60Gb PS3 one? Or is it better to fresh install on the PS3 drive and then import my most recent backup file? I was thinking of using Clonezilla for the first option, but I don't think it will image a larger source to a smaller destination. I thought of using gparted to shrink the partitions and then image with Clonezilla, but am not sure if Astaro uses block-level partition addressing that would get hosed by changing the partition boundries by shrinking with gparted.
Any input or solutions I have not thought of would be appreciated.
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