Hi and many thanks for the reply. The first part was not a problem because when I checked using gparted I found that the rest of the stick was blank and empty.
Where I am having trouble is how to transfer the two partitions as seen with fdisk:-
**Device**** Start**** End****Sectors**** Size****Type**
/dev/sdc1 2048 1026047 1024000 500M EFI System
/dev/sdc2 1026048 5220351 4194304 2G Linux filesystem
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If I use dd if=/dev/sdc1 of=/dev/sdb1 it will create a clone of …sdc1 as …sdb1 but if I then try and repeat this for /dev/sbc2 surely this will erase everything on the output file stick before creating the new partition? Have I got it wrong?
I also have no idea if there are any system elements or boot flags set. Since it is used for efi and starts with DOS partition, is there an MBR lurking I wonder.
Trying just to clone the whole drive didn’t work because, I assume, the empty sectors are still copied but cannot be because the drive for output from dd is much smaller?