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Re: Google Chrome and Java

Rob Ross wrote:

What's the easiest way to clone a boot partition?

I use Carbon Copy Cloner. Other people I know use other things, like SuperDuper.

Whatever you pick, make sure you confirm that it works for you before committing valuable data to it. It's like backup software: doing a backup is only part of it, you have to confirm you can do a restore, too, and in a disaster-like context.

But I've tried using Disk Copy to create a DMG file, copy all the System and Library folders to it, but then I could not find a way to boot into that DMG file.

It's not possible to boot from a DMG file. Think about what has to be in place to decode the contents of a DMG file: kernel, file- system, dmg drivers, etc. But those are precisely the things you're trying to load from the DMG file. Infinite regress ensues.

It may be possible to use a DMG to hold a copy of a bootable partition, which you can later restore to a partition, but I haven't had to try that yet. I've always been able to use a spare partition, or hook up an external HD with a spare partition.

  -- GG

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