Re: disk cloning with dd

Werner Otto wrote:

Can one use dd on a mounted partition, if so will it clone the boot
partition aswell and good to boot from?

Don't use dd on a mounted partition. Any files that change while dd is running will end up corrupted on the new drive, and likely the filesystem itself will be corrupted. Boot from a CD or another drive, or at least unmount the partition being copied. Or better use rsync, which will work correctly even with mounted partition.