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 10:06:42 +1000 Lines: 34 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net XdRMO+EmnB5MJkJTQoh3hg0w15SDUgvvW4smyjSmj9kYW+xMa0 Cancel-Lock: sha1:jsOII/+7mMI4BeEDARq1yB9abnY= sha256:W2kcpRugu3PKeVZM846UdSsFOzHGHGuD2WmeBd0AAzs= 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:47347 Axel wrote: > 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 > ??? > p.s. this is the image I made. if that helps? https://auslink.info/linux/image.png -- Linux Mint 22.3