Radiosilence past week has been because of busy shuffling data around on various disks, converting physical disks to virtual ones and vice versa.

Anyway, I got to use a little tool called #partclone a lot and for doing this kind of work it’s the best thing since sliced dd. It is able to clone a partition, but unlike dd it is FS aware, so it skips all the unused bits. And in case there is a partition it doesn’t know it has a dd-equivalent command as well to handle those cases.

Great recommended little tool, alongside fdisk/gdisk.

So far so good :steamdeck: #fingerscrossed only my photo taking skills suck 😆

Currently this setup is running from a #ugreen branded #usb3 PD pass-through hub, which I got for #macbook back then, and a nvme enclosure for the new ssd. I'm also using #ventoy + #clonezilla as a disk cloning OS. ıt benefits from #partclone .

People have been running the #dd command directly through #SteamDeck #steamOS desktop mode while it's running, which I'd rather not.

I cloned my #raspberry's SD onto a new one with a strange mix of #dd and #partclone and then placed it into the "new" 4 model.

So far so good.