Clone only space in use from hard disk
You can, but you should prepare your disk first. The trick is to use sparse file or compression. This method is time consuming, … Read more
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How can I clone a hard drive directly to a vdi image
You can directly create an image with VBoxManage convertfromraw. First unmount the device, then: VBoxManage convertfromraw /dev/sda MyImage.vdi –format VDI Replace /dev/sda with … Read more
Good block size for disk-cloning with diskdump (dd)
64k seems to be a good pick: Results: no bs= 78s 144584+0 records bs=512 78s 144584+0 records bs=1k 38s 72292+0 records bs=2k 38s … Read more
Free way to clone HDD to SSD? [closed]
PartedMagic UPDATE: since circa 2014, PartedMagic is no longer free to download, although still technically FOSS (in the sense that you can build … Read more
fatal: http://myserverip/home/git/example.git/info/refs not found: did you run git update-server-info on the server?
Followed this example to set up a git repository on my server. It worked, and I successfully pushed my code to it. But … Read more
I used “dd” to clone a drive to a larger drive. How can I leverage the additional space (linux)?
Fdisk can’t see extra space I upgraded my trusty 74gb Raptor hard drive to a 600gb Velociraptor behemoth. I used “dd” to clone … Read more
Backup/Clone a btrfs partition
Is it possible to backup a btrfs partition verbatim (including all the shared structures which save space by marking snapshot trees as COW) … Read more
Can I do something like Linked clones with Hyper-V?
I have to roll out 10 windows server 2012 machines using hyper-v in my lab. I know with vmware you can use ‘linked-clones’. … Read more
create image of a USB drive without unallocated partition
I have 8GB USB drive attached to my system which looks like this: [[email protected]]# fdisk -l /dev/sdb Disk /dev/sdb: 8462 MB, 8462008320 bytes … Read more
How to decrease virtual size/capacity of a Virtualbox vdi file
I want turn a physical machine running MS Windows 7 into a VirtualBox virtual machine. This is easy, I have done this before, … Read more
