Can I just use dd to clone my laptop to a bootable USB stick? - eviltoast

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.

  • clever_banana@lemmy.today
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    9 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.