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## rpi-clone
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This updated code is located in a fork of Bill Willsons git repository
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https://github.com/billw2/rpi-clone at https://github.com/geerlingguy/rpi-clone
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`rpi-clone` is a shell script for cloning a running Raspberry Pi booted source
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disk (SD card or USB disk) to a destination disk which will be bootable.
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Version 2 is a complete rewrite with improved capability over
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the original. See the examples below.
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Destinations include:
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rpi-clone is a shell script that is for cloning a running
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Raspberry Pi booted source disk (SD card or USB disk) to a destination
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disk which will be bootable. Destination disks are SD cards in the SD
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card slot or a USB card reader, USB flash disks, or USB hard drives.
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- SD cards in the SD card slot or a USB card reader
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- USB flash drives
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- USB hard drives and SSDs
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- NVMe drives attached directly to the Pi PCIe bus
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I also use rpi-clone on my Debian desktop, but there are too many
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variables in how an /etc/fstab can be set up and a desktop bootloader like
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grub can be configured for this to be an officially supported way of
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using rpi-clone. See On other OS below.
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`rpi-clone` can be used on other Debian systems, but is only tested and meant
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for Raspberry Pi OS. See 'On other OS' below.
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> This project is a fork of [the original `rpi-clone`](https://github.com/billw2/rpi-clone)
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> by Bill Wilson, but the original project was abandoned in 2020.
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#### Clone by initialization
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An initialization clone starts by imaging the source disk partition

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