I know about Clonezilla and copy pasting partitions with gparted, but can I just use dd to copy a partition with batocera to a USB stick and will it then boot from the stick? Do I have to set the boot flag or take any other steps?

Thank you for any tips.

  • UntouchedWagons@lemmy.caEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I wouldn’t recommend this as cp might not persist file ownership and permissions or maintain hard/soft links properly.

    • bizdelnick@lemmy.ml
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      10 months ago

      I guess, she meant copying not files but block devices, like cp /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1. With GNU cp this really works similar to dd.