Quattro Pete Joined Oct 30, 2002 Messages 42,384 Location Great Lakes Nov 8, 2022 #1 What free tool would you recommend that runs under Windows for cloning an entire Linux drive (ext4)? Macrium Reflect? MiniTool ShadowMaker? Last edited: Nov 8, 2022
What free tool would you recommend that runs under Windows for cloning an entire Linux drive (ext4)? Macrium Reflect? MiniTool ShadowMaker?
T Touring5 Joined Sep 24, 2005 Messages 1,010 Location Indiana Nov 9, 2022 #2 I'm a fan of Macrium Reflect. I use it to do scheduled backups of my Windows drive. I'm not 100% certain it can clone/image ext, but I'd be surprised if it can't. That said, it couldn't handle UFS from an opendBSD drive I had opnsense on.
I'm a fan of Macrium Reflect. I use it to do scheduled backups of my Windows drive. I'm not 100% certain it can clone/image ext, but I'd be surprised if it can't. That said, it couldn't handle UFS from an opendBSD drive I had opnsense on.
jayjr1105 Joined Aug 2, 2018 Messages 1,280 Location PA Nov 9, 2022 #3 Why does it have to be windows? Just make a clonezilla flash drive, boot to that and clone
A AandPDan Joined Feb 1, 2011 Messages 1,109 Location MA Nov 9, 2022 #4 Yup. Use Clonezilla, for everything
JohnnyG Joined Jan 1, 2003 Messages 3,316 Location Daytona Beach Nov 9, 2022 #5 Won't the built in Linux utility (Disks) do the trick? I see where it will create a disk image.
jayjr1105 Joined Aug 2, 2018 Messages 1,280 Location PA Nov 9, 2022 #6 dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/dev/sdb1 or ddrescue -v -v -f -b 4096 /dev/[source] /dev/[destination]
haggler Joined Feb 3, 2020 Messages 1,102 Location Los Angeles Nov 9, 2022 #8 use clonezilla or a live usb and "dd" The only issue i could imagine is you may have to reize your partition (expand) after if the new one is larger.
use clonezilla or a live usb and "dd" The only issue i could imagine is you may have to reize your partition (expand) after if the new one is larger.
jayjr1105 Joined Aug 2, 2018 Messages 1,280 Location PA Nov 9, 2022 #9 haggler said: use clonezilla or a live usb and "dd" The only issue i could imagine is you may have to reize your partition (expand) after if the new one is larger. Click to expand... clonezilla offers to proportionally resize the partitions if the new drive is larger.
haggler said: use clonezilla or a live usb and "dd" The only issue i could imagine is you may have to reize your partition (expand) after if the new one is larger. Click to expand... clonezilla offers to proportionally resize the partitions if the new drive is larger.
Quattro Pete Thread starter Joined Oct 30, 2002 Messages 42,384 Location Great Lakes Nov 18, 2022 #10 Ended up using Clonezilla. Thanks all!