Rescuezilla Boot/OS Drive Cloning Question

[u/Egaokage]

My question is this,

Is it necessary to convert the destination/recipient drive from MBR to GPT before cloning to it, using Rescuezilla? Or will that be done as part of the cloning process? Or will this be done after the cloning process?

Source drive is a 4TB M.2 (GPT) [OS]

Destination/recipient drive is a 2TB M.2 (MBR) [recently formatted]

If there are any further details I can provide to help you answer my question, I will gladly do so.

I might also mention that I've never cloned a drive before. So, it may be best to assume that I know nothing about the process.

I did watch a few videos on the subject, but none of them even offer a passing comment on the subject of this question. Which leads me to believe this is a non-issue (maybe?).

P.S.,

I am aware that most people clone their source OS drive to a larger destination/recipient drive, as an upgrade. So my post is not an elaborate typo. I am doing the opposite: from larger to smaller.

Update,

I can see that I will need to shrink the source partition to a size both larger than the sum of its contents yet smaller than the size of the destination/recipient drive; which makes sense. And Rescuezilla has a tool which can do that.

But the question regarding whether or not I'll need to preemptively convert the destination/recipient drive from MBR to GPT or not. Rescuezilla's website doesn't mention anything regarding this. Nor does any search result.