SOLVED:Cloned drive unbootable

[gnappi]

After booting from the CD I used the command to copy a 1/3 full 500 gb SATA drive to an external 500 gb sata drive using

sudo dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdc

And after 6 hours the terminal showed no further activity but the destination drive appeared to be in a fixed read or write loop so I powered down booted on the source drive and the disks utility shows all of the partitions sizes on the destination disk correct but but the file system partition appears full and the swap shows as free space?

Ideas what I may have done wrong?

[WharfRat]

It might not have completed

Do it again using sudo dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdc bs=4M status=progress && sync so you can monitor the progress.

[gnappi]

Wow! After 6 hours with only 1/3 of it full? I'll try again using your syntax but, this time I'll install the destination drive in the system instead of the USB3 external connection, I wonder if the DVD does not load the fast driver for USB?

[Pierre]

aah - YES - - don't use any usb connection, if possible.
- can be very Slow, even with usb3
direct connections, SATA preferably.

[WharfRat]

Don't forget to change dd's destination

I did 6TB on a usb3 - it ran all night long into the next day

[AZgl1800]

Don't forget to change dd's destination

I did 6TB on a usb3 - it ran all night long into the next day

Very familiar with that, all of my backup drives are USB, usb-2 is a PITA

usb-3 is doable, but I start it at bedtime, and don't look at it again until the next evening.

whatever you do, don't screw with the PC period.... just leave that one alone, and get another one to surf the net.
I turn the monitor off.

[gnappi]

It might not have completed

Do it again using sudo dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdc bs=4M status=progress && sync so you can monitor the progress.

Thanks WR. I'm running off of the cloned drive. It took 92 minutes to copy. I read a bit on DD and it copies the empty white space too not just the data.
Good thing I installed the drive to be cloned in the machine

Thanks again everyone.