Your original question seemed to imply you wanted to maintain the partition
layout for some reason. If you do, disk images are the correct way to do
it... But, as others have said, you might not actually have meant to ask
for that...
If what you want is the files, not the partitions, you can use
>
>
> Don't know if what I want is actually possible.
> Don't know if there is something basic that I don't know.
> Thank you.
>
>
I think your purpose is probably best served by a file copying solution,
rather than a disk imaging one. I would suggest using cp -a.
If you insist on creating whole
On 01/04/2019 08:23 AM, Tyrell Jentink wrote:
The standard tool for taking a disk image is 'dd.' Man page:
http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/dd.1.html
That's where I started ;/
Theoretically, you can simply image the entire drive, partitions and all
intact exactly as they are presently,
I wish to do fresh Debian installs to three machines {including
repartitioning drives of each machine}. Each drive is nominally 250GB. I
have purchased a USB connected 1TB drive to be the target.
I like the ease of use of Clonezilla-live. But it intrinsically wipes
the target drive
