I wanted to clone my HD using Shrink Wrap.
The OS is on a 2.3 G drive

Destination drive is six G.

Error message : Destination disk wrong size.

I re-partitioned the Destination dusk to *exactly* the same size as
source but still get same error message.
What am I doing wrong?

Just a matter of curiosity...I can put both drives in my Linux machine
and use "dd" .
Don't think that's ever failed.

On 2024-08-17, philo <philo@novabbs.com> wrote:
> I wanted to clone my HD using Shrink Wrap.

Why not use CCC or SuperDuper like a normal person?

> Just a matter of curiosity...I can put both drives in my Linux machine
> and use "dd" . Don't think that's ever failed.

macOS has dd - it's Unix after all. But I wouldn't bother trying to
clone a macOS boot drive with it.

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On 8/17/24 14:51, Jolly Roger wrote:
> On 2024-08-17, philo <philo@novabbs.com> wrote:
>> I wanted to clone my HD using Shrink Wrap.
>
> Why not use CCC or SuperDuper like a normal person?
>
>> Just a matter of curiosity...I can put both drives in my Linux machine
>> and use "dd" . Don't think that's ever failed.
>
> macOS has dd - it's Unix after all. But I wouldn't bother trying to
> clone a macOS boot drive with it.
>

"dd" from my Linux machine took about five minutes.

Small drive

Worked perfectly

As it turned out, the Mac partitions were *slightly* different in size
which probably was why Shrink Wrap didn't work.

The Mac disk utility does not have the ability to *exactly* set size

On Aug 17, 2024 at 12:51:51 PM PDT, "Jolly Roger" <jollyroger@pobox.com>
wrote:

> On 2024-08-17, philo <philo@novabbs.com> wrote:
>> I wanted to clone my HD using Shrink Wrap.
>
> Why not use CCC or SuperDuper like a normal person?
>
>> Just a matter of curiosity...I can put both drives in my Linux machine
>> and use "dd" . Don't think that's ever failed.
>
> macOS has dd - it's Unix after all. But I wouldn't bother trying to
> clone a macOS boot drive with it.

This is Apple's "approved" way to clone an OS disk and all the partitions and
bits.

https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-250005828

I've used this a couple times. I don't know if it will work with drives of
different size.
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The machine is running OS 8.6

I doubt if any new utility would work.

Now that I succeeded in cloning it.

I'm going to continue to experiment with other methods.

Nothing critical on the drive...simply a matter of examining my tools

On 2024-08-17, philo <philo@novabbs.com> wrote:
> The machine is running OS 8.6

That's something you should have mentioned up front. And there's a
comp.sys.mac.vintage newsgroup just for that sort of thing.

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Good point.
Anyway "dd" did the job

On 2024-08-17 22:50:18 +0000, philo said:
>
> The machine is running OS 8.6
>
> I doubt if any new utility would work.
>
> Now that I succeeded in cloning it.
>
> I'm going to continue to experiment with other methods.
>
> Nothing critical on the drive...simply a matter of examining my tools

DiskCopy
ShrinkWrap
DiskDup
Copy II Mac / Copy II HD
Toast
Retrospect
Tri-BACKUP
Aladdin FlashBack
Synchronize! / Synchronize! Pro
SyncIt

Probably a few others. All available at macintoshgarden.org

It's probably slower, but you can simply use the Finder to copy one
disk onto another.

Just as glad I asked here. That vintage mac group is close to dead.

Thank you

On 2024-08-18 04:25:57 +0000, philo said:
>
> Just as glad I asked here. That vintage mac group is close to dead.
>
> Thank you

comp.sys.mac.vintage is on my watched list. :-)
But you are probably better off asking questions at macintoshgarden.org
or similar enthusiast websites.

Thanks
Will check that out