From: none@not.here   
      
   Paul wrote:   
   > On Wed, 2/18/2026 4:02 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
   >> On Wed, 18 Feb 2026 20:55:18 +1100, Axel wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> Gordon wrote:   
   >>>> Clonezilla is for cloning, not backing up.   
   >>> it does disk imaging   
   >> So does the “dd” command.   
   >>   
   >>    
   >>   
   > The difference in the example being, it does not   
   > use the same space that dd does.   
   >   
   > dd is just fine, in the right circumstances, like if   
   > some partitions are damaged, and you want to preserve   
   > the state of the disk while you experiment on recovery   
   > solutions. dd does not care if you are not fsck-clean.   
   >   
   > But for backing up perfectly good disks with fsck-clean   
   > file systems, there are other things you can use.   
   >   
   > 64GB disk, OS content 13GB,  Clonezilla compressed partimage 4.7GB.   
   >   
   > Depending on the random contents of the white space on   
   > the ~64GB partition, that random content might not   
   > compress well. You can "prep" a disk for "dd" backup   
   > by using zerofree, but that takes additional time as   
   > part of a backup procedure. You can also loopback mount   
   > partitions on an uncompressed dd file output... as long   
   > as you know the offset. And you can work out the offset   
   > using disktype analysis of the dd image.   
      
   I've used Foxclone in preference to Clonezilla, but I don't recall now   
   the reason. maybe just that the GUI is easier to use?   
      
   >   
   >     Paul   
      
      
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