LIVE-CLONE(1)

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👑 live-clone — the girlies' guide to cloning your whole entire system 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the live-clone manual page, straight out of the live-clone User Manual ✨ this is the section-one page for live-clone, and yes it's giving iconic.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

sudo live-clone

that's it. that's the whole vibe. run it as root, periodt. 💅

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so live-clone is a GUI program — yes, graphical, you don't have to touch the terminal for this one — and it lets you clone the running system from a Debian Live USB stick to other USB sticks or USB drives. and when we say "Debian Live USB stick", we mean one generated by live-build as an iso-hybrid drive. iykyk. 🔥

the way that every single USB stick and USB drive connected to your machine that live-clone detects just... shows up in a table? 😭 yes. all of them. and you get to pick which ones are the targets of the clone process. main character energy fr fr.

and here's the part that lowkey slays: the clone process only copies the read-only part of the system. so your personal data? not disclosed. not leaked. not part of the deal. 🫶

you can also select the size of a VFAT partition to create on the target devices, and a persistence partition gets created on each of them. and that persistence partition? it starts out with no initial data — literally empty, like a fresh new notebook 🎀 — and it gets populated during the first boot of the new system, and after that it's continuously updated with all the data generated by the user's activity. it grows with you, bestie. 🌱

oh and you can use this program to clone from a Debian USB stick to the local main hard disk too. but listen—

⚠️ this is NOT a standard installation of the Debian system. no cap. it is not that. what it is, though, is very efficient, and it has nice features for the beginners. 💀✨

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • -h, --help — show a summary of the options. the "wait what does this do again" button. 🦋
  • --diskinstall — clone the system to the local hard drive. 👑
  • --simulation — a simulated clone on a temporary 16 GB volume. pretend play, but make it technical. 🧚

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

  • live-build (7)

🎀 AUTHOR 🎀

Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org>

  • wrote this manpage for the Debian system. 💜

Copyright © 2021 Georges Khaznadar

this manual page was written for the Debian system (and may be used by others).

permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 3 or (at your option) any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

on Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.

okay and that's the whole page, bestie 🫶 this was live-clone, version dated 06/11/2021, from the LIVE-CLONE(1) manual — go forth and clone responsibly, mwah 💋🌸

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