create bootable clone using OSX?

If your LaCie is still empty, then go into Disk Utility and choose the Disk

Then click on the Partition Tab and it should be reasonably simple from there - choose how many partitions you want, drag the bar to split the partitions to the appropriate sizes and choose Mac OS Extended (journalled) if you're going to boot from it.

Clone-wise, I'm not sure how you'd go about doing it. There are probably a series to Terminal commands etc to do so but when you're cloning, you don't move everything over (like some of the caches etc) and I'm not sure how you'd then make it bootable.

Why the aversion to 3rd party stuff? I use Superduper to clone mine. I used to use the free version but then paid so I could use the incremental backups and save time (besides, it's such a great bit of software, I felt bad not paying them anything!)

student_trap said:

You recomend superduper though? is it a free 'trial' for a certain amount of days or just a limited copy of the software?

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It's limited to only full clones. If you want the incremental backups (which are useful since they're quicker) or the safety clones, then you have to pay.

It's never caused me any problems and it's saved my life (or at least my data) on occasion so yes, I guess I'd recommend it.