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all props to the lady, her content is usually on point and she’s really trying but please don’t use clonezilla for cloning disk-to-disk. if you have a fairly modern OS with say encrypted btrfs, this thing copies the whole disk (instead of only the occupied space). so if you have a 500 GB disk with 50 GB used, clonezilla will copy the whole 500 gigs. aside from that not being super-efficient, it’s also not very healthy for the target SSD. it also copies the UUIDs, so if you leave both disks in the system, havoc awaits.
a vastly faster and way more efficient solution is to use btrfs send | btrfs receive to copy only the data. sadly, no beginner-friendly tool for such an operation exists and you’re still supposed to set up everything by hand (new partition layout, grub or systemd-boot install, fstab, etc).
eons ago, we had SuperDuper! on macOS. a free and simple tool anyone could use. that thing clones the disk by copying only the data, so it’s possible to clone a larger drive to a smaller (provided the data fits), makes the target bootable, etc. so you just plug it in and it works and all of that works from a live system, no need for USB flashes and such! I’m not aware of any such tool available here and clonezilla even in “beginner mode” is a tall order for non-experienced user.
There’s also the issue of modern laptops using their TPM chip to encrypt the drives (bitlocker) and then you won’t be able to do anything useful with the encrypted disk image.
I used an automated clonezilla solution in a past life for almost 7 years. It’s incredibly flexible and customizable. I agree in your scenario using the latest tools built for that file system is the most direct route, but you’re generally wrong about clonezilla in your rant and it sounds more like a result of hitting defaults and the next button on the gui.
With that said, I agree it isn’t that great for beginners and usually has more stable, older packages which means it could be missing latest features. It certainly is not as useful as it once was because of the great tools provided by btrfs and zfs. But, it IS still extremely useful and WILL provide a working solutions for most people in most situations. It could really use a facelift for the modern times.
all props to the lady, her content is usually on point and she’s really trying but please don’t use clonezilla for cloning disk-to-disk. if you have a fairly modern OS with say encrypted btrfs, this thing copies the whole disk (instead of only the occupied space). so if you have a 500 GB disk with 50 GB used, clonezilla will copy the whole 500 gigs. aside from that not being super-efficient, it’s also not very healthy for the target SSD. it also copies the UUIDs, so if you leave both disks in the system, havoc awaits.
a vastly faster and way more efficient solution is to use
btrfs send | btrfs receiveto copy only the data. sadly, no beginner-friendly tool for such an operation exists and you’re still supposed to set up everything by hand (new partition layout, grub or systemd-boot install, fstab, etc).eons ago, we had SuperDuper! on macOS. a free and simple tool anyone could use. that thing clones the disk by copying only the data, so it’s possible to clone a larger drive to a smaller (provided the data fits), makes the target bootable, etc. so you just plug it in and it works and all of that works from a live system, no need for USB flashes and such! I’m not aware of any such tool available here and clonezilla even in “beginner mode” is a tall order for non-experienced user.
There’s also the issue of modern laptops using their TPM chip to encrypt the drives (bitlocker) and then you won’t be able to do anything useful with the encrypted disk image.
I used an automated clonezilla solution in a past life for almost 7 years. It’s incredibly flexible and customizable. I agree in your scenario using the latest tools built for that file system is the most direct route, but you’re generally wrong about clonezilla in your rant and it sounds more like a result of hitting defaults and the next button on the gui.
With that said, I agree it isn’t that great for beginners and usually has more stable, older packages which means it could be missing latest features. It certainly is not as useful as it once was because of the great tools provided by btrfs and zfs. But, it IS still extremely useful and WILL provide a working solutions for most people in most situations. It could really use a facelift for the modern times.