can I use the dd
command to clone my ubuntu installation from my external disk to my local hard drive. will it even boot? I think I can, but not sure. do I need to make the output partition on my local disk the exact size as the input partition on the usb? I'm thinking install and boot off a liveusb on a different small flash drive and run something like sudo dd if=/media/usbexternaldisk of=/media/localdisk
would that work as is?
also if I make an iso image of my external ubuntu installation using dd
, can I burn it onto disk or unto another hard drive and have that boot up?