How can I clone a 120GB ssd to a 80GB one?

Question

Would someone know how to do this? I have cloned equal sized harddrives before with dd but I don't know how to clone a bigger one to a smaller one. The 120GB ssd has less than 50Gb worth of data fyi. How can I do this in Ubuntu?

Answer 1

Use resize2fs (see man resize2fs) to shrink your existing partition from 120GB to 80GB (since you have only 50GB of data). Then, use your standard 80GB to 80GB clone process.