Copied system partitions to USB disk, how to proceed to make a clone?

[Zahid Rahman]

 > If it is in
use then it isn't safe to copy it.

Use usb live boot then
  disk copy.  dd if=/dev/inputdisk of=/dev/outputdisk  status=progress

Optional step

Then use gparted on  outputdisk to resize partition to use unallocated
space



Zahid


On Mon, 25 Oct 2021, 11:32 Colin Law, <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 25 Oct 2021 at 11:18, Bo Berglund <bo.berglund at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >  the partition is showed in GParted as being mounted and
> > therefore not possible to modify.
>
> You can tell GParted to unmount it, unless it is in use.  If it is in
> use then it isn't safe to copy it.
>
>
> Colin
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