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

[Karl Auer]

On Mon, 2021-10-25 at 12:16 +0200, Bo Berglund wrote:
> What does "locked" mean - encrypted?
> 
> Such partitions might be possible to copy anyway but since disk
> content is probably changing during copy the procedure is risky at
> best.

Oooh, I completely forgot about that, and advised a dangerous and
unreliable procedure. I am sorry :-(

I've lost track of what you can and cannot do on this mysterious box,
but if you can boot off a self-contained USB stick then all the disk
partitions can be copied, because none will be mounted - or if they
are, they can be unmounted without danger.

> This is probably not possible (or rather difficult), the new PC has a
> 500 GB SSD disk which I believe is very securely mounted inside. It
> is one of these longish circuit board type disk modules.

Modern drives of any type are generally straightforward to insert and
remove, at least from desktops. Not always from laptops. Use a stat
strap, work on a stat mat, don't force anything. But I say that never
having seen your system, so if it is in fact difficult or impossible,
then I apologise, retract everything and now steadfastly maintain the
opposite :-)

The trickiest step may well be getting an identical drive to swap in.

Regards, K.

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