You could clone a disk to a partition, but AFAIK it would only be of use as an inaccessible backup, good only for the purpose of cloning back to a disk. IOW, answer is a qualified no.
I wouldn't try, because I don't care much for backups that are inaccessible. A better plan if you want the old SSD's content on the new disk to save as a backup, make sure the new disk size is sufficiently large enough to provide adequate space for the new system and its partitions, and enough space to hold an archive of the entire old disk. You could then put the archive on its own partition and filesystem on the new at its far end, which would then be available to unarchive onto the same disk at some future point in time to the start of the disk. I don't see much point. I'd just save the old SSD as backup, and if I was truly convinced of the old SSD's unreliable state, acquire another to clone to. A 250 isn't very expensive, and extra disks are always good to have in your backup media pool.
The better plan is probably just to clone the old / partition to the new disk, plus each other that the / depends on, or possibly rsync their combined content onto one extra filesystem. In an enforced headless situation though, I can't imagine how you'd be able to switch between two different installed systems.
I wouldn't try, because I don't care much for backups that are inaccessible. A better plan if you want the old SSD's content on the new disk to save as a backup, make sure the new disk size is sufficiently large enough to provide adequate space for the new system and its partitions, and enough space to hold an archive of the entire old disk. You could then put the archive on its own partition and filesystem on the new at its far end, which would then be available to unarchive onto the same disk at some future point in time to the start of the disk. I don't see much point. I'd just save the old SSD as backup, and if I was truly convinced of the old SSD's unreliable state, acquire another to clone to. A 250 isn't very expensive, and extra disks are always good to have in your backup media pool.
The better plan is probably just to clone the old / partition to the new disk, plus each other that the / depends on, or possibly rsync their combined content onto one extra filesystem. In an enforced headless situation though, I can't imagine how you'd be able to switch between two different installed systems.
Statistics: Posted by mrmazda — 2024-04-06 21:46