[olug] Copying a hard drive to USB with dd

[Justin Reiners]

That should work perfectly

On Sat, Jan 16, 2021, 1:08 PM Thomas D Williamson <twilliam at inebraska.com>
wrote:

> I have a 80 GB drive that is too full to perform updates. I have a
> larger drive to replace it. I have 128 GB USB and was wondering if dd
> could be used to copy the 80 GB onto it  and install the new drive and
> use dd to copy the 80 GB to the larger drive. I would then resize the
> partitions to use available space among other things.
>
> I looked around and could not find anything that addressed this. I have
> done this with drives where there were more slots for putting in drives
> with SATA connections, but this is a compact format and has more of a
> laptop connection, so I do not see how to have the old drive and new
> drive attached at the same time to accomplish the dd transfer.
>
> Tom
>
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