From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Fri, 25 Jul 2025 10:01:09 -0400, Paul wrote:   
      
   > The problem I have with this idea, is later if you buy a new hard drive,   
   > and you want to clone over the drive (say using ddrescue), you would   
   > also copy the portion of the file system that declares some blocks bad.   
      
   This is why I always do file-level copies, rather than trying to “clone” a   
   drive. rsync is a great tool for this.   
      
   I think Windows users have this assumption that, for OS installs at least,   
   you must use some kind of “cloning” utility to transfer them, otherwise   
   they won’t work.   
      
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