I have a 2009 Mac mini set up as a dual boot with Yosemite and Ubuntu 15.04; the boot loader is rEFind. The internal drive is a 500 gb HD, and I bought a 500 gb SSD that I want to use to replace the slow HD. I have an external enclosure for the SSD and I want to start by cloning the internal drive before replacing it. (I have an enclosure that I can put the SSD in and it can be attached to the mini through either Firewire 800 or USB 2.) The Mac partition is HFS+ and there is also a recovery partition. Ubuntu is on one ext4 partition and there is a swap partition as well. Is it possible to do a bit by bit copy of the whole drive with either Clonezilla or dd and if so, will the drive be bootable? Or do the Mac and Linux partitions have to be done separately and the boot loader reinstalled? Alternatively, I have a Mac utility called Carbon Copy Cloner - will it make a bootable bit by bit copy of the drive, and will it preserve the partition structure?
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