Hello, 3 years older brother. I am not a spammer! In the Message; Subject : T470-w10+Tumbleweed/Slowroll Message-ID : <20240118171250.1f06c6a3c23892932aee6de8@trixtar.org> Date & Time: Thu, 18 Jan 2024 17:12:50 -0500 [BTF] == "Ben T. Fender" <slowroller@trixtar.org> has written: BTF> I got me a used Lenovo T470 with w10 preinstalled and using uefi or BTF> whatecver they call that fancy boot crap. BTF> In order to stay on the safe side of the alley I just installed BTF> Tumbleweed on a 1tb usb-ssd prepartitioned the same as the 1tb ssd of my BTF> desktop to eventually just host a copy of it. This way I can make a BTF> 'dd' copy of the entire laptop ssd for a backup of the entire BTF> on-board built-in hsithouse with windows included. I 'think' in case BTF> of a mishap I would just dd that file back to that or another same BTF> size ssd and be done with it. BTF> 3 questions BTF> - is the above a workable arrangement? If you are asking if it is possible to backup and restore ssd with Windows and Tumbleweed using the dd command, the answer is "yes". BTF> - can I plug the linux ssd into the thunderbolt port and get better BTF> speed than with just a usb port (reason, I need all the usb ports)? If your SSD has a USB Tyep-C connection, you can use it at a higher speed. This means you don't coexist Windows10 and Tumbleweed on ssd, right? BTF> - is there another and simple way of doing it all on an internal 1tb+ BTF> ssd with grub and not run the risk of windows screwing it all up? For a use like yours, there is only a risky way. Kind Regsrds. --- ┏━━┓彡 野宮 賢 mail-to: nomiya @ lake.dti.ne.jp ┃＼／彡 ┗━━┛ "Tim Cook, the C.E.O. of Apple, said earlier this year that he would not let his nephew join social networks. Bill Gates banned cellphone until his children were teenagers, and Melinda Gates wrote that she wished they had waited even longer. Steve Jobs would not let his young children near iPads." -- The New York Times --