Hi Andrew, > Clonezilla is faster as it only clones areas of the filesystems which > actually contain data, but that probably doesn't matter for a one-off > clone.
A good point. dd(1) obviously doesn't do that. I had an idea GParted could when copying a partition because it could use an external filesystem-specific program to do the copy but browsing https://gparted.org suggests I'm wrong. Copying only the important bits is a useful optimisation and it's been used by many over the years. But I always wonder ‘If it goes wrong for me, how many years pass before I find the end of some file is missing?’. Then I go for dd and copy all the bits, even the ‘unused’ ones. :-) -- Cheers, Ralph. -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2023-11-07 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk
