How to clone HDD with Linux parition to SSD on G5 Mac?
Posted: Mon Jul 26, 2021 10:20 am
Hello,
i really struggling with cloning HDD to SSD in PowerG5. After i found compatible SSD, its easy to copy Mac partition to new disk.. but i have nice installed PowerPC Linux on second partition and im not able to copy it.
It seems that Disk Utility, Super Duper or Carbon Copy only care about main partition but not about other not MacOS ones.. Or i dont know how to do it and clone really whole disk.
Other complication would be that original HDD is 160 and target is only 120 GB.. i reality only ~30 GB of data is used space and rest is really freescape, but some clonning tools can have problem with that.
If there is some PC -HDD cloning tool, but is supporting Apple Partition scheme, let me know i dont mind use PC instead of old Mac for it.
i really struggling with cloning HDD to SSD in PowerG5. After i found compatible SSD, its easy to copy Mac partition to new disk.. but i have nice installed PowerPC Linux on second partition and im not able to copy it.
It seems that Disk Utility, Super Duper or Carbon Copy only care about main partition but not about other not MacOS ones.. Or i dont know how to do it and clone really whole disk.
Other complication would be that original HDD is 160 and target is only 120 GB.. i reality only ~30 GB of data is used space and rest is really freescape, but some clonning tools can have problem with that.
If there is some PC -HDD cloning tool, but is supporting Apple Partition scheme, let me know i dont mind use PC instead of old Mac for it.