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.

  • bizdelnick@lemmy.ml
    2·
    6 months ago

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

    • bartolomeoOP
      1·
      6 months ago

      That’s cool, I didn’t know you could use cp on partitions.