Re: Unable to boot from live dvd to desktop
Reply #6 –
If your artix is in a large partition that has lots of free space you can shrink it to like 110% of used. Then I use dd and bzip2 to make an image. # dd bs=4M if=/dev/sdx** | bzip2 -9f >/yourbackupdirectory/backupimg.img.bz2 ; sync
but you have to boot from a different system to backup the partition. When you restore you have to make sure the partition is equal or larger than what you backed up. # bunzip2 </yourbackupdirectory/backupimg.img.bz2 | dd of=/dev/sdy** ; sync
sdx** is your source partition name sdy** will be your target for restoring.
Run a check on the partition when you finish so the remaining free space of the partition will be formatted properly. The UUID remains the same, but grub will have to be reconfigured if say it came from sda3 and now it is on sdb6.
Also if you used fstab to mount other partitions on that disk you have to comment them out as they might not appear on the new disk and you will run into booting errors.
This should be done either in root shell or you have to add sudo in front of dd.
This is what I have used for years and it has been 100% reliable for me.