Create and restore an ssd image using dd in different filesystems
bamboo @ bamboo @lemmy.blahaj.zone Posts 17Comments 1,203Joined 2 yr. ago
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As others have said, using
dd
will be a bit for bit copy of the drive, regardless of the filesystem. If you were only using 10GB, and the rest of the drive was "empty", the output ofdd
will still be a 256GB file. You could compress this file with gzip if storage is a concern.With regard to your plan with Windows, there is a hardware check that OS will perform and if the hardware drifts too much, the OS will not be activated anymore and will need a new license. I'm not familiar with recent versions of Windows, but if you have a Pro version of the OS, it might not work on new hardware.