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Can I just use dd to clone my laptop to a bootable USB stick? (suppo.fi)
submitted 9 months ago by bartolomeo@suppo.fi to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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I know about Clonezilla and copy pasting partitions with gparted, but can I just use dd to copy a partition with batocera to a USB stick and will it then boot from the stick? Do I have to set the boot flag or take any other steps?

Thank you for any tips.

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[–] bartolomeo@suppo.fi 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That worked really well! I got a 50gb partition with about 30gb free space into a 10gb zipped image. Is there any way to show progress during the operation like with dd's status=progress?

[–] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I often use pv instead of cat for this. And there's some 'hack' where some tool looks at some kernel feature to guess progress of cp & co. But i forgot it's name.