Cloning your hard drive, the easy way (with Clonezilla)
Does anyone read descriptions anymore? If you read the description, comment with "That's a bossy video". Shoot, is that engagement farming? Oh well. What? Oh, right, I'm supposed to be describing t...
Ok.......if you guys ever heard me saying that peertube is nothing but the same 3 people making linux videos everyday, and nothing else ever......THIS is one of the 3 people I wasn't going to name. I mean, I was joking before, but it was the type of joke where you just say the truth really really loudly.
You could be the 4rth!
In actuality, most people use social media to lurk and only 1% (made up number but its a small percent) actually post/comment. And even less actually make "content". I like her videos and I almost always learn something new.
Trust me, I try to get as many peertube creators out there as possible on lemmy. It takes a bit to find. Peertube the software is very capable of serving the videos...but youtube gives them $$ if they succeed on the platform and Peertube gives them freedom. Some people will post to both (I think this is the most pragmatic approach in case you get copyright struck).
all props to the lady, her content is usually on point and she's really trying but please don't use clonezilla for cloning disk-to-disk. if you have a fairly modern OS with say encrypted btrfs, this thing copies the whole disk (instead of only the occupied space). so if you have a 500 GB disk with 50 GB used, clonezilla will copy the whole 500 gigs. aside from that not being super-efficient, it's also not very healthy for the target SSD. it also copies the UUIDs, so if you leave both disks in the system, havoc awaits.
a vastly faster and way more efficient solution is to use btrfs send | btrfs receive to copy only the data. sadly, no beginner-friendly tool for such an operation exists and you're still supposed to set up everything by hand (new partition layout, grub or systemd-boot install, fstab, etc).
eons ago, we had SuperDuper! on macOS. a free and simple tool anyone could use. that thing clones the disk by copying only the data, so it's possible to clone a larger drive to a smaller (provided the data fits), makes the target bootable, etc. so you just plug it in and it works and all of that works from a live system, no need for USB flashes and such! I'm not aware of any such tool available here and clonezilla even in "beginner mode" is a tall order for non-experienced user.
There's also the issue of modern laptops using their TPM chip to encrypt the drives (bitlocker) and then you won't be able to do anything useful with the encrypted disk image.
