04-01-2018, 08:57 AM
Mike, thanks for clarifying, the partition I wish to clone to is much larger than the data size on the SDHC. A further thought has raised its head though, if I want to clone FROM a 500GB HD would I then need a destination device not less than 500GB. I think I need to make a much smaller partition on the HDD for linux lite (the total size on the SDHC is only about 26GB including data and lots of additional apps). So if I create a 32GB partition on the HDD, that will allow me to create clones from HDD back to SDHC. Does that sound feasible?
Some descriptions of the use of dd indicate that the whole drive is copied, including empty space, so I'm still not certain.
Thanks for your time,
another UK Mike!
Some descriptions of the use of dd indicate that the whole drive is copied, including empty space, so I'm still not certain.
Thanks for your time,
another UK Mike!
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