Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Axel Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.mint Subject: Re: Making a hard drive image Date: Mon, 4 May 2026 09:59:50 +1000 Lines: 29 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net VtVdwE3K5FcHlM8VkxNT2gk65iPgOQTqls2UUENILjgtH5+p/E Cancel-Lock: sha1:EaB2lGLSPPDxoyUYIvgMCTnuB04= sha256:cp/12LynTkUulEDzG3NhNHEKi5V0VZBnJZhBgcrUH9c= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:128.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/128.0 SeaMonkey/2.53.23 In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com alt.os.linux.mint:47346 Axel wrote: > > 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. :) > thanks for all replies, I will investigate them. for now, this is what I have done. successfully created an image of the NVME using rescuezilla. successfully wrote that to a 500Gb SSD, but it won't boot. Disks shows there are no files in the main partition: https://auslink.info/linux/copy.png this is the nvme i copied from: https://auslink.info/linux/nvme.png ??? -- Linux Mint 22.3