[App_rpt-users] How to clone SD card for R Pi

[Ken Koster]

On Wednesday, March 13, 2019 12:23:55 PM PDT Lu V wrote:
> Yea I am about to do the same (dd) but I see two partitions pop up when I
> plug in the SD card . Which do you back up? Or is my w10 doing something
> odd?
> 
> Sent from my iPhone, Lu Vencl

You copy the whole disk image which includes the partition information and 
boot block.

That does mean you need sufficient storage to image the complete disk.   For me 
that means a minimum of 32G of memory since that's my typical card size.

The initial copy takes a long time.

Then you can use this script: https://github.com/Drewsif/PiShrink to shrink the 
image down to the minimum size needed.   The end result is an image (usually 
about 4G in size) that when flashed to a new card will autoexpand just like the 
standard RPi images.

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