<html><head></head><body>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 <bruce.labitt@myfairpoint.net> 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="k9mail">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>gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org<br><a href="http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/">http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/</a><br></pre></blockquote></div></body></html>