[olug] Copying a hard drive to USB with dd

[aric at omahax.com]

I got one of these to uses as a boot drive for a TrueNAS server.   They also make 9.5mm ones.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B081Z5STG6/

They might be a nice cheap option for an old laptop running Linux if you have an optical drive bay.

-Aric 

-----Original Message-----
From: OLUG <olug-bounces at olug.org> On Behalf Of Justin Reiners
Sent: Saturday, January 16, 2021 4:01 PM
To: Omaha Linux User Group <olug at olug.org>
Subject: Re: [olug] Copying a hard drive to USB with dd

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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