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From: philo <philo@privacy.net>
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Subject: Re: Shrink Wrap utility
Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2024 16:44:33 -0500
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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