On 11/23/20 2:08 AM, Sreyan Chakravarty wrote:
On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 1:37 PM Samuel Sieb <samuel@xxxxxxxx <mailto:samuel@xxxxxxxx>> wrote:
No. Unless you are trying to recover a failing drive, you would not
want either of those.
So do I use partclone or dd ?
partclone understands filesystems and will avoid copying the free space.
dd just copies the entire device (drive, partition, LVM logical volume,
decrypted container, ...) bit-for-bit.
If you have a broken filesystem or are trying to examine deleted files
or do other forensic analysis, then "dd" is the appropriate choice.
Otherwise, "partclone" or other filesystem-aware tools are more
efficient. That is particularly true if the destination is on an SSD,
where you really do _not_ want to be storing the content of all the
free space.
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