On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 5:12 PM Samuel Sieb <sam...@sieb.net> wrote: > For general imaging, dd is fine. But you need to read the context here. > He wants to make an image of the current filesystem in order to write > it back to a thin LV. For that purpose, you only want to be writing the > used blocks. Otherwise, you will be wasting all the space and the thin > LV becomes useless. I suppose if there is enough space available, you > could run a trim afterwards to get the space back, but that's really > inefficient. >
I ended up using partclone. Worked like a charm. I too believe dd would be too inefficient, also not sure if thin LVMs would have liked a dd image. -- Regards, Sreyan Chakravarty
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