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I’d use clonezilla
E: It’s not that it can’t be done other ways, it’s just clonezilla will work and has worked for nearly 2 decades. Also there’s no information provided above about the data. So clonezilla is nice if it’s a complicated scenario.
Plus, it’s a nice tool to throw in the toolbox once you know how to use it.
E. Why do you feel like you have to use something like dd for this particular task? Less than 16 GB of data? Ya probably could have copied it over manually by now.
It's not an active partition/disk I want to clone. Clonezilla seems like something I need to boot into?
Yes, Clonezilla runs off a live USB. If it is large enough it can also store the partition you want to clone, making the whole process a lot simpler.