Normally, in a Linux system, 'sda' represents the first disk and 'sdb' would represents the secondary disk. 'of' is of course, the output file - our target drive. 'if' is the input file - it is the original drive we wish to clone. 'sudo' is necessary as we are cloning a system drive.

You will have to be familiar with the command line interface (Terminal). This cloning method works on Macs, Linux, FreeBSD and any unix-based systems.

It evolves a command line utility called 'dd' ( Wikipedia) mainly used to copy and convert files. In the process of upgrading my Mac SSD drive (which is a whole story of its own), I've come across many different methods of doing so.Īt one time, I was keeping 'Time Machine' backups regularly which made the whole process quick and easy I swapped the SSD cards and restored the most recent Time Machine backup from the hard drive I was keeping the backups on.Įventually, I came across another method that I was already familiar with already but didn't think of in this particular scenario.

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