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.

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    I just moved to Linux two days ago and omg there is so much to learn but something I never heard of until 20.minutes ago and again right now is tarring…what is it?

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          Its not necessary better as tar by itself doesn’t have compression. You need gzip, bzip2 or something else. On modern systems with gnu tar can handle tar with compression.

          If your still curious I would look up how to use it.

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      Tape ARchiver. It just takes a tree of inodes and puts it in one long format that can be written out to tape or stored as a single file.

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      You mean tearing?
      As in video screen tearing?

      There is also tar which is a very common archiving system, so tarring=archiving

      Stay away from debian/ubuntu if you really want to learn linux. They dictate how you do things so much you will never learn how to do it.

      @Squizzy @possiblylinux127

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        I’m on mind, which I think is Ubuntu but tbh while I’d love to learn I think it is all just too much for me with my workload. I’m enjoying tinkering but I’m getting nowhere.