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Ok so basically I wipe my machine a lot. And I take about an hour to reinstall Linux and reinstall/uninstall all my programs. It would be nice to just load Linux with all my preferences already there.

Is there a way to do this? I’ve tried DD and it seems to use my ENTIRE hard drive (even empty parts of the drive).

Harry qwerty
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  • This isn't a Linux support site (SE Unix & Linux performs that function), so why ask here? As written I don't see your question as on-topic (refer https://askubuntu.com/help/on-topic) – guiverc May 31 '21 at 01:44
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    Creating an image file might be a good alternative to an ISO file, See: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1300540/how-to-duplicate-a-ubuntu-system-for-distribution. You can also use Gnome-Disks, (or dd), to create and restore an image file of a single partition, – C.S.Cameron May 31 '21 at 02:08

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You can use higher level programs such as fsarchiver, or partimage to backup or restore Linux partitions, which will only copy the data. They can also compress the data during the backup process. See https://www.fsarchiver.org/partimage/ for a comparison between the two.

tinlyx
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