I know about Clonezilla and copy pasting partitions with gparted, but can I just use dd to copy a partition with batocera to a USB stick and will it then boot from the stick? Do I have to set the boot flag or take any other steps?
Thank you for any tips.
I wouldn’t recommend this as cp might not persist file ownership and permissions or maintain hard/soft links properly.
I guess, she meant copying not files but block devices, like
cp /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1. With GNU cp this indeed works similar todd.That’s cool, I didn’t know you could use cp on partitions.
My bad, forgot that.