

% sudo diskutil mount disk3s1 Volume EFI on disk3s1 mountedĬopy the EFI folder from the source disk's EFI partition to the target disk's empty EFI partition via Finder or Terminal % sudo diskutil mount disk2s1 Volume EFI on disk2s1 mounted Mount the source and target EFI partitionsĢ: Apple_HFS Install macOS Big Sur 126.4 GB disk2s2 Use Carbon Copy Cloner to clone the source disk to the target disk Partition (GUID) and format (HFS+) the target disk
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Here's how to clone the EFI partition as well:

However, this is problematic when cloning boot disks like the one produced by Ben Sova's Patched-Sur, which depend on the EFI partition for critical functionality.

Because of this, the disk clone utilities do not copy the contents of the secondary EFI partition from one drive to another when doing their job. EFI booting in order to maintain compatibility with running non-Apple operating system on their hardware, they do NOT need the EFI partition in order to boot acOS. When making a bootable clone with Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper!, EFI partitions are skipped, since they aren't needed for macOS boot disks: Carbon Copy Cloner and SuperDuper! ignore EFI partitionsĬarbon Copy Cloner and SuperDuper! ignore EFI partitions #
