NAME

       cloneToSda - clone the Freeduc system from a live session to the machine's hard disk

SYNOPSIS

       cloneToSda

DESCRIPTION

       cloneToSda allows one to clone the core of a live Freeduc system to the local machine's
       hard disk. All data on the hard disk will be erased, four partitions will be created on
       the hard disk

       /dev/sda1
           The first partition (which weighs some gigabytes) contains a bootable iso-9660
           filesystem, so the core of Freeduc is in read-only mode.

       /dev/sda2
           The second partition is a hidden NTFS partition, inside the iso-9660 partition, to
           feature iso-hybrid boot properties. This partition contains necessary files to boot in
           EFI mode.

       /dev/sda3
           A vestigial vfat partition. For pluggable disks, it does make sense to provide a vfat
           partition, which can contain files reachable from Windows and Mac machines. When the
           same system is used on a hard drive, allocating disk resource to this partition does
           not make sense.

       /dev/sda4
           This partition bears a EXT4 filesystem. It is called the "persistence" partition, and
           some of its directories are mounted in overlay mode: that means that every changes to
           the original system are written there.

           If one erases the directory rw/ near the root of this partition, all persistence data
           are removed. One important file must be kept in its root directory: "persistence.conf"
           defines how overlays are mounted. By default, this file defines one single overlay for
           all the system.

AUTHOR

       Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org>
           Wrote this manpage for the Debian system.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright © 2020 georgesk

       This manual page was written for the Debian system (and may be used by others).

       Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of
       the GNU General Public License, Version 2 or (at your option) any later version published
       by the Free Software Foundation.

       On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in
       /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.