Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Axel Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.mint Subject: Making a hard drive image Date: Sun, 3 May 2026 14:00:45 +1000 Lines: 18 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net w5wHAo1Lb7hfn6arEjcwkgyhF3j6lI8gEd3FBRNdeS2bBUX2Oi Cancel-Lock: sha1:b43CX+ZfYZb/WHMk/WYKfv5Vrys= sha256:oXlaoIm1ry3g2Ppb4PsrDHYRDxtZ30PPcGqcl4CkB7Q= X-Mozilla-News-Host: news://news.individual.net:119 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:128.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/128.0 SeaMonkey/2.53.23 Xref: csiph.com alt.os.linux.mint:47324 I want a full back up of my 500Gb NVME disk. I tried Foxclone, but I found that the image can only be written back to the original drive, which pretty much negates it's usefulness. I want an image of the NVME drive I can use on any disk to create a working drive. I tried the Disks app, and discovered it doesn't compress the image, and since the image created is a bit over 500 Gb, I can only write it to a drive larger than 500Gb. (sigh) I think the problem is that the NVME drive is actually a fraction over 500Gb, since if I try to clone it to a 500Gb drive I get a message that the receptor drive is too small. I was told I can reduce the partition on the NVME drive to make a smaller image, but I'm afraid to do that in case I lose data. I will try Rescuezilla, but if that doesn't compress the image there's no gain from that. Does anyone have any better suggestions for what I can do? thanks to all. :) -- Linux Mint 22.3