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Can I just use dd to clone my laptop to a bootable USB stick? (suppo.fi)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

First tar up your filesystem. You can use gzip to save space. Once that's done copy it over. Make sure you use a good filesystem on the USB device that isn't going to cause data loss. (ie not fat)

Keep in mind that you can't do this live and that copying the archive over will take time and the drive may lie to you. Its always best practice to run sync or eject before unplugging.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I just moved to Linux two days ago and omg there is so much to learn but something I never heard of until 20.minutes ago and again right now is tarring...what is it?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Its a compression program for making file archives.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

So basically Zip but better?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Its not necessary better as tar by itself doesn't have compression. You need gzip, bzip2 or something else. On modern systems with gnu tar can handle tar with compression.

If your still curious I would look up how to use it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Tape ARchiver. It just takes a tree of inodes and puts it in one long format that can be written out to tape or stored as a single file.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You mean tearing?
As in video screen tearing?

There is also tar which is a very common archiving system, so tarring=archiving

Stay away from debian/ubuntu if you really want to learn linux. They dictate how you do things so much you will never learn how to do it.

@Squizzy @possiblylinux127

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

I'm on mind, which I think is Ubuntu but tbh while I'd love to learn I think it is all just too much for me with my workload. I'm enjoying tinkering but I'm getting nowhere.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Wait why can't I do it live? Thanks for the tips.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Because it is in use. You technically can hot swap a file system by switching run levels and temporarily switching to a tmpfs but I've never succeeded.