Restore Shrunk The Disc

Hi all
Well resrtore didin't actually. I've blundered but can't remember how I fixed this last time and can't find any notes.
I've created a disc image and used netrestore to write the image over a machine.
However the result on the target is a 7 gig drive that is full instead of a 60 gig drive with 7 gigs of data. I know last time it was something simple.
Can someone quickly point me to where I went wrong and how to fix it ?
Thank you
Kind Regards
Eric

Hi William
Resolved.
The issue wasn't with the image but with the retore process. Two possible contributors which I didn't have time separate being initialising the drive before restoring and the initialise check bosxin netrestore.
Clue was that we had zeroed out the drive to effect a repair. My previous net restore exercises were with formatted drives. It occurred to me that the zeroed drive hadn't been initalised and didn't know it was 60 gig and simply produced a partition the size of the image.
On running the restore after initialising the drive I also realised we used the intialise checkbox in netrestore.
Turned this off and the image restored correctly.
Kind Regards
Eric

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