What are we doing for disk imaging theses days?
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The native tools
dd ?
No need for all these new-fangled tools when good ol’
dd
does the job just fine. (Though they certainly reduce the chance of accidentally nuking the wrong disk).Rather use
dd_rescue
as it’ll retry if it encounters any reading issue.
pv. It’s just cat, with a progress meter.
cp
@uhmbah
I use gnome-disks.
Then according to this german article:
gnulinux.ch/raw-images-verklei…
I reduce the images Partition to the smallest possible.
edit it’s content with kpartx and remove cache, tmp and trashbin
and reduce the disk and image size with pishrink.cp.
I use FSArchiver. There’s nice list on Archwiki.
Gnome disk utility.
It crashes for me when I try to write a image