Are there any risk of bricking the macbook by cloning to a partition?
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I'm currently using a mac with 3 bootable partitions (multiboot). MacOS, Ubuntu and Arch-Linux.
I can switch between the operating systems using rEFInd
I mostly only use Arch-Linux but only gave it 30GB / 256GB when I created it. Now, I'm unable to update Arch because I don't have enough space left.
As far as I know, Mac stores the boot menu on the disk itself and has been afraid of messing with the disk too much because I don't want to end up bricking the macbook like I've done 2 times in the past. Changing the disk did not work, and I got a new one warranty.
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## This is my plan ##
1. Clone the partition to a 32GB USB Flash drive using Clonezilla
2. Delete all partitions except MacOS
3. Create a new partition with 128 GB
4. Boot to Clonezilla again, and clone from USB to partition (This is the part I'm worried about)
5. I would imagine I would need to extend the partition aswell after the cloning.
Are there any risk of overwriting the boot or bricking the Macbook?


Asked by Typewar
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May 25, 2019, 01:35 AM
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