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I have a 500gb external hdd that I'm using to boot Ubuntu. I don't need 500gb it was just so I didn't mess up my internal drive running OS x. I just bought a 64gb usb that I would like to make bootable with all the stuff from my external drive(only using lk 18 gb). Everything website I've found says I need 500gb(same size) or bigger to clone the drive and settings. Is there any way to make the 64gb drive bootable by cloning from my external drive?

KamikazeStyle
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You really have two options:

  1. You could copy all the deb files for the packages you have installed from /var/cache/apt/archives just so long as you haven't ran sudo apt-get clean to specifically remove these files

  2. I have always used aptoncd which is my recommendation.

Just open a terminal and run the following command: 

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install aptoncd

From their webpage:

Create a removable repository with all packages downloaded with Synaptic, apt-get or aptitude.

This gives you a fancy GUI to make backups of all your programs, it is capable of others things as well but this is what I have always used it for. Here is their website.

Dylan
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