Booting from a USB Drive

[Matt Graham]

From: JD Austin <jd at twingeckos.com>
> I've used clonezilla before but it has been awhile.. is it faster
> than just using dd ?

partimage/clonezilla are intelligent enough to look at the filesystem and only
copy the blocks that are actually in use.  dd copies everything.  So if the
NTFS/FAT/whatever disk is <= 95% full, it'll probably be faster to use a
smarter program, and the image file will be smaller.  If the filesystem on the
disk isn't a commonly-used one, though, you may be stuck with dd.

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