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Advanced users • Re: Why does the sd card copier require a desktop environment?

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What's wrong with using dd? No GUI required.
Exact bit copy, destination must be the same size (even if source is mostly empty) and can blow up with mounted file systems. Plus folks get the destination wrong and overwrite stuff.

Certainly works, if you know what you are doing. Is likely a bit low level and dangerous for new to Linux folks that are used to hand holding, warning messages, and safety nets.

I would suggest that rsync is safer but it also has an absurd number of options. That is the big win for SD Card Copier... it has a simple GUI front end, hides away the complexity and does not let you select the running OS file system as the target.

Statistics: Posted by bjtheone — Thu Apr 25, 2024 1:20 pm



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