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 11:37:18 +1000 Lines: 41 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net AF7Urp/FCx5Jsp9rwF8muw/Qh8/8dCGRW9zIBMuR9EXyUpNne2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:GKJeqhGDHsULE0FfVQF4ISmEQDA= sha256:pE498IPSgKw1YM5IDWChdtmeBdNkqSD0KwWQGHdidFA= 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:47350 Axel wrote: > 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 > solved! I mounted the 'empty' partition using Disks and the files are all there https://auslink.info/linux/mounted.png, so I tried the disk in a different PC, and it works perfectly. issue was the first PC I tried was using legacy bios. thanks everyone, -- Linux Mint 22.3