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I don’t use windows for close to 20 years so I didn’t need ntfsclone so far but do I read correctly the man page that only the source is specified as positional parameter? If so, shouldn’t you have to write
nftsclone —overwrite /dev/sdc /dev/sdb? It still can be misleading (given that mv uses two positional parameters so mv -f source destination would have done what you wanted) but a bit less cryptic?
Yeah, sorry it was a long time ago (like 10+ years) but I checked and it would've been the --overwrite arg.
The manpage for the older ntfsclone command has it:
Moral of the story was to RTFM 😂
(RTFM = Read the Fucking Manual)
Adding this because I only learned this acronym just last week, and wish to share the knowledge with anyone else like me)