After a recent hard drive crash on my laptop, I've been trying to limp along by installing f11 on a 8GB USB stick. After an installation from a live USB stick to another USB stick, I drove to a local hotspot to update and yum install some stuff that wasn't on the live USB. It took forever to update, not even counting the download time. I'm sure there is a reason, but I was surprised that the original installation took about 7 minutes and it took several hours to update that installation AFTER downloading all of the updated rpms.
Anyhoo, now that I've spent most of a day getting the USB stick updated and configured, I want to clone it to another USB stick. I tried a few naive things like copying directories to the backup stick, but ran into boot errors (I think due to different uuids on the backup sticks partitions). What is the right way to clone a fedora installation on a USB stick to a second stick that isn't exactly the same size (they are both 8G, but different models so have slightly different sizes).
Thanks,
David