From: robin_listas@es.invalid   
      
   On 2025-03-12 01:03, Paul wrote:   
   > On Tue, 3/11/2025 2:16 PM, Richard Kettlewell wrote:   
   >> Daniel70  writes:   
   >>> Some time ago, I backed up my Laptop's 500GB internal HD to an 2TB   
   >>> external HD using (I forget) ... It might have been 'dd' but I doubt   
   >>> it.   
   >>   
   >> A backup that you don’t know how to restore isn’t really any use.   
   >>   
   >>> However, the 500GB Internals Image took up 500GB on the External   
   >>> (i.e. a byte-by-byte image, even the empty bytes, apparently!).   
   >>>   
   >>> Now, when I look at that External HD using my Win 11 Desk-top, it   
   >>> doesn't 'see' anything.   
   >>   
   >> Look at it with a Linux box instead.   
   >>   
   >>> If I back-up this Win-11 Desktop to the same External HD, is there a   
   >>> possibility that Win-11 will write itself over the Linux Image?? Or is   
   >>> Win-11 able to detect that there is 'something' there so will go   
   >>> looking for the next available UNUSED portion of the External HD??   
   >>   
   >> Not possible to say, since you don’t say how you made the backup.   
   >>   
   >   
   > sudo apt install disktype      # An application having a small source size,   
   but quite capable   
      
   Do you know where to find its source?   
      
   My distro doesn't have it.   
      
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