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    From philo@philo@novabbs.com (philo) to comp.sys.mac.system on Saturday, August 17, 2024 16:32:03
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    I wanted to clone my HD using Shrink Wrap.
    The OS is on a 2.3 G drive

    Destination drive is six G.

    Error message : Destination disk wrong size.

    I re-partitioned the Destination dusk to *exactly* the same size as
    source but still get same error message.
    What am I doing wrong?

    Just a matter of curiosity...I can put both drives in my Linux machine
    and use "dd" .
    Don't think that's ever failed.
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  • From Jolly Roger@jollyroger@pobox.com to comp.sys.mac.system on Saturday, August 17, 2024 19:51:51
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    On 2024-08-17, philo <philo@novabbs.com> wrote:
    I wanted to clone my HD using Shrink Wrap.

    Why not use CCC or SuperDuper like a normal person?

    Just a matter of curiosity...I can put both drives in my Linux machine
    and use "dd" . Don't think that's ever failed.

    macOS has dd - it's Unix after all. But I wouldn't bother trying to
    clone a macOS boot drive with it.
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  • From philo@philo@privacy.net to comp.sys.mac.system on Saturday, August 17, 2024 16:44:33
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    On 8/17/24 14:51, Jolly Roger wrote:
    On 2024-08-17, philo <philo@novabbs.com> wrote:
    I wanted to clone my HD using Shrink Wrap.

    Why not use CCC or SuperDuper like a normal person?

    Just a matter of curiosity...I can put both drives in my Linux machine
    and use "dd" . Don't think that's ever failed.

    macOS has dd - it's Unix after all. But I wouldn't bother trying to
    clone a macOS boot drive with it.




    "dd" from my Linux machine took about five minutes.

    Small drive

    Worked perfectly

    As it turned out, the Mac partitions were *slightly* different in size
    which probably was why Shrink Wrap didn't work.

    The Mac disk utility does not have the ability to *exactly* set size
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  • From Percival John Hackworth@pjh@nanoworks.com to comp.sys.mac.system on Saturday, August 17, 2024 22:11:21
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    On Aug 17, 2024 at 12:51:51 PM PDT, "Jolly Roger" <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:

    On 2024-08-17, philo <philo@novabbs.com> wrote:
    I wanted to clone my HD using Shrink Wrap.

    Why not use CCC or SuperDuper like a normal person?

    Just a matter of curiosity...I can put both drives in my Linux machine
    and use "dd" . Don't think that's ever failed.

    macOS has dd - it's Unix after all. But I wouldn't bother trying to
    clone a macOS boot drive with it.

    This is Apple's "approved" way to clone an OS disk and all the partitions and bits.

    https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-250005828

    I've used this a couple times. I don't know if it will work with drives of different size.
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  • From philo@philo@novabbs.com (philo) to comp.sys.mac.system on Saturday, August 17, 2024 22:50:18
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    The machine is running OS 8.6

    I doubt if any new utility would work.

    Now that I succeeded in cloning it.

    I'm going to continue to experiment with other methods.

    Nothing critical on the drive...simply a matter of examining my tools
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  • From Jolly Roger@jollyroger@pobox.com to comp.sys.mac.system on Saturday, August 17, 2024 23:00:21
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    On 2024-08-17, philo <philo@novabbs.com> wrote:
    The machine is running OS 8.6

    That's something you should have mentioned up front. And there's a comp.sys.mac.vintage newsgroup just for that sort of thing.
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  • From philo@philo@novabbs.com (philo) to comp.sys.mac.system on Saturday, August 17, 2024 23:35:45
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    Good point.
    Anyway "dd" did the job
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  • From Your Name@YourName@YourISP.com to comp.sys.mac.system on Sunday, August 18, 2024 15:23:04
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    On 2024-08-17 22:50:18 +0000, philo said:

    The machine is running OS 8.6

    I doubt if any new utility would work.

    Now that I succeeded in cloning it.

    I'm going to continue to experiment with other methods.

    Nothing critical on the drive...simply a matter of examining my tools

    DiskCopy
    ShrinkWrap
    DiskDup
    Copy II Mac / Copy II HD
    Toast
    Retrospect
    Tri-BACKUP
    Aladdin FlashBack
    Synchronize! / Synchronize! Pro
    SyncIt

    Probably a few others. All available at macintoshgarden.org

    It's probably slower, but you can simply use the Finder to copy one
    disk onto another.

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  • From philo@philo@novabbs.com (philo) to comp.sys.mac.system on Sunday, August 18, 2024 04:25:57
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    Just as glad I asked here. That vintage mac group is close to dead.

    Thank you
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  • From Your Name@YourName@YourISP.com to comp.sys.mac.system on Sunday, August 18, 2024 17:48:08
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    On 2024-08-18 04:25:57 +0000, philo said:

    Just as glad I asked here. That vintage mac group is close to dead.

    Thank you

    comp.sys.mac.vintage is on my watched list. :-)
    But you are probably better off asking questions at macintoshgarden.org
    or similar enthusiast websites.

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  • From philo@philo@novabbs.com (philo) to comp.sys.mac.system on Sunday, August 18, 2024 16:13:24
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    Thanks
    Will check that out
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