Bloved Madman@lemmy.world to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 7 months agoSurface Laptop 3 running Kubuntu, such an improvement over what it was "designed" for.lemmy.worldimagemessage-square82fedilinkarrow-up1345 cross-posted to: surface@lemmy.ca
arrow-up1345imageSurface Laptop 3 running Kubuntu, such an improvement over what it was "designed" for.lemmy.worldBloved Madman@lemmy.world to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 7 months agomessage-square82fedilink cross-posted to: surface@lemmy.ca
minus-squareMonkderZweite@feddit.chlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-27 months agoFrom your live stick, bevor install, do # cp /dev/your-disk /your/image.img or to save space: # gzip < /dev/your-disk > /your/image.img.gz or faster but might need to install it first: # lz4 /dev/your-disk /your/image.img.lz4 To get a list of your disks, there’s lsblk. I recommend partition-wise backup, it’s always a bother to extract/shrink individual partitions in images of whole disks. That would be /dev/your-disk1 etc
From your live stick, bevor install, do
# cp /dev/your-disk /your/image.img
or to save space:
# gzip < /dev/your-disk > /your/image.img.gz
or faster but might need to install it first:
# lz4 /dev/your-disk /your/image.img.lz4
To get a list of your disks, there’s
lsblk
.I recommend partition-wise backup, it’s always a bother to extract/shrink individual partitions in images of whole disks. That would be
/dev/your-disk
1 etc