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Need help cloning Linux hard drive

I was referred to Clonezilla in an attempt to clone a Linux hard drive to a new hard drive. I must say it worked quite well with one exception (and it did state it). The inability to resize volumes. I have one volume on the source that is 221GB. It is the "data" volume and only has 30-40 files and takes up 40MB. It does not need to be anywhere near that large. It is a 250GB SATA hard drive. I want to clone it to a 160GB SSD and I have every volume cloned with the exception of that one.

   My guess it that I could create the volume on the SSD and copy the files from the source to this smaller destination volume but I am at a loss on how to do it. I am not a Linux head. I need to do it with some kind of boot CD. I have both drives on-line at the same time but need some help creating the volume and copying the files to it from the source volume.
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