I am currently in the process of cloning a mac ssd to a larger one. The old one is a 256 GB size and the new is a 512 GB SSD.
Now some notes is that the mac is a modified Mac where I am running OS Mojava on a early 2009 Mac pro with a RX580 GPU. So I lose the boot screen. In order to do this process, I am actually using my laptop with 2 external SSD cases connected into my USB drives.
So I have clonezilla and I follow the tutorial on cloning to a bigger drive. Excpet I go to the expert mode and select the K1 option to resize the partition accordingly. Everything appears to work fine. No errors.
However, when it is completed and I install the new ssd, the computer does not boot. Looking at the contents, it appeared that no data was moved over. Even the clonezilla shell did not detect the filessytem (which is suppose to be APFS). Technically, clone zilla could not mount the original SSD but it was able to detect that it as APFS.
I changed up a coulple of options and tried again (mainly, I turned off the option to re-install GRUB bootloader) and I have the same results.
So, to clone a APFS filesystem using clonezilla, are there any additional considereations or options that I need to setup?
Note: Some might say do the Mac Disk utility. Which I have tried. Now, the data does get placed on there but for some reason, it does not boot...... So my thinking is is that I want to do a bit-by-bt copy to get the bootloader
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Which version of Clonezilla live did you use?
Clonezilla live >=3.0.0-26 does support APFS cloning. From what you have mentioned, it looks like the file system is done, but the booting mechanism fails?
Steven
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Hello everyone,
I am currently in the process of cloning a mac ssd to a larger one. The old one is a 256 GB size and the new is a 512 GB SSD.
Now some notes is that the mac is a modified Mac where I am running OS Mojava on a early 2009 Mac pro with a RX580 GPU. So I lose the boot screen. In order to do this process, I am actually using my laptop with 2 external SSD cases connected into my USB drives.
So I have clonezilla and I follow the tutorial on cloning to a bigger drive. Excpet I go to the expert mode and select the K1 option to resize the partition accordingly. Everything appears to work fine. No errors.
However, when it is completed and I install the new ssd, the computer does not boot. Looking at the contents, it appeared that no data was moved over. Even the clonezilla shell did not detect the filessytem (which is suppose to be APFS). Technically, clone zilla could not mount the original SSD but it was able to detect that it as APFS.
I changed up a coulple of options and tried again (mainly, I turned off the option to re-install GRUB bootloader) and I have the same results.
So, to clone a APFS filesystem using clonezilla, are there any additional considereations or options that I need to setup?
Note: Some might say do the Mac Disk utility. Which I have tried. Now, the data does get placed on there but for some reason, it does not boot...... So my thinking is is that I want to do a bit-by-bt copy to get the bootloader
Hello, does anyone have any idea about this?
Which version of Clonezilla live did you use?
Clonezilla live >=3.0.0-26 does support APFS cloning. From what you have mentioned, it looks like the file system is done, but the booting mechanism fails?
Steven