<div dir="ltr">Clonezilla is awesome for that.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Sat, Dec 1, 2018 at 2:07 PM Dan Jenkins <<a href="mailto:dan@rastech.com">dan@rastech.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>We use Clonezilla off a bootable USB flash drive. <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On December 1, 2018 12:51:34 PM EST, Bruce Labitt <<a href="mailto:bruce.labitt@myfairpoint.net" target="_blank">bruce.labitt@myfairpoint.net</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<pre class="m_-8062842004574287438k9mail">It' apparent that one uses a variant of dd. What isn't apparent is how <br>one goes about cloning one's primary disk (active). From searching it <br>appears it is not recommended to use dd when the disk is active, either <br>the source or the destination.<br><br>I'm trying to clone my nearly full SSD with the OS (Ubuntu 18.04) to a <br>new larger SSD.<br><br>Is there a tiny linux I can boot into that I can run dd from? Or can I <br>make the main disk ro? What do you suggest?<br><br>I have backed up home. I really don't want to re-install the OS, since <br>I have had troubles with gdm3 screwing up (different topic). (Black <br>screen, no consoles)<br><br>Recommendations/recipes on the cloning process sought.<br><br>I was simply going to use<br><br># dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdc bs=4096 conv=sync,noerror<br><br>I've seen lots of comments about block size and optimal setting, but I'm <br>not sure what is optimal if there are unknown (but few) source drive errors.<br><br>Thanks,<br><br>Bruce<hr>gnhlug-discuss mailing list<br><a href="mailto:gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org" target="_blank">gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org</a><br><a href="http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/" target="_blank">http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/</a><br></pre></blockquote></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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