[ale] dd vs clonezilla to replace hard drive

[Jim Kinney]

Format the new one and rsync.
Unless this is a boot drive then dd the boot sector and /boot partition.

On Mon, Dec 26, 2022, 5:29 PM Narahari Lakshminarayana via Ale <ale at ale.org>
wrote:

> Friends:
>
> I bought a new SSD drive of the size 512GB the inland brand from
> Microcenter.
> I want to use that to replace my current laptop's 160 GB NON-SSD drive.
>
> Is it a good idea to use Clonezilla to make an img file of the current
> disk and restore to the new SSD ?
>
> OR
>
> Is it faster and best to run the dd command and replicate bit-by-bit of
> the current drive to the new SSD drive ?
>
> Please advise.
>
> -N
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