wil I bork the target disk if I do this?

[Colin Law]

On Wed, 2 Jun 2021 at 22:43, Dave Stevens <geek at uniserve.com> wrote:
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> I have a spinning disk with software on it that I want to propagate
> using dd to a flash drive - to do a partition copy. The source
> partition on sdd below is 29.7 GB, the target partition on sdb is 29GB
>
> The source partition has about 8GB free so the interesting content
> will fit nicely on the target, sdb. I tried to shrink the source
> partition using gparted but hit a barrier of some kind at 30GB nominal
> and can't get gparted to take a smaller figure, 28GB say, which would
> be fine.

Can you share a screenshot of what gparted shows for the source disk please?

Colin