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lmao my plan to quadruple the storage space on my pc is being thwarted by the fact the usb nvme ssd dock i bought only has a usb-c connector

i'm… gonna have to use my gf's laptop to do the ssd cloning ahahaha

turns out in 2024 having a computer with only usb-a ports is a liability. all my adapters and hubs only go in the usb-a to usb-c direction. i never thought it would happen!

‪like to me usb-c is still that thing you have on laptops and usb-a is the Serious one, and i do not buy hubs with usb-c ports on them because everything i want to connect is usb 2.0 or, rarely, usb 3.0‬

‪next hurdle: why does my ubuntu usb flash drive crash every time i try to boot it on my gf's laptop?‬

‪answer: it has an nvidia gpu. log in with x windows instead of wayland. lmfao‬

‪oh shit you can pass 'status=progress' as an argument to dd and it'll actually give you periodic transfer status updates i wish i knew this before‬

‪1TB (932GiB) copied in 2306s, that's not bad‬

advantages of this ship-of-theseus'd disk content being MBR: dd'ing the old ssd to the new one Just Works

disadvantages: this new ssd is 4TB. guess what the max size for an MBR partitioned disk is??? (it's less,,,,)

@hikari I had a 4 TB HDD that was factory formatted with an MBR partition table. I was surprised. I think it worked because it used 4 KB sectors instead of the usual 512 byte ones.

@hikari Probably not? I think it only matters for interpreting partition start/stop offsets. I'm sure Linux is using 4KB blocks anyways.