Questions tagged [cloning]
Duplicating an installation of Linux or other Unix-like operating system. See also /migration
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Copy Linux Mint boot area from external SSD drive
I'm sorry if this question is not on topic. I am moving from Windows to Linux and had the idea to use a bootable Linux Mint external SSD to slowly download and integrate all the software I use, while ...
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How to clone CentOS 7.7 installation on another disk?
I thought I could clone a running CentOS 7.7 installation by replicating the contents of the /, /boot, /boot/efi partitions on the target disk and then modifying the /etc/fstab and the grub.cfg files ...
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DD between different file system
I need to install a new server Linux cloned by DD. In the old server i used xt4 and in the new server i want use i.e zfs. Can use DD command from old ext4 to new zfs?
Thanks to Whom will responde.
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Manjaro Linux HDD Cloning/Backup to External Storage
I have Manjaro XFCE in my Laptop with Windows 8.1 in a dual-boot format.
Now, the issue is when Manjaro Linux is accessed, there is a Continuous "Stroking"/"Screeching" Sound or ...
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Newly Cloned NVMe won't boot on laptop
In my fairly old laptop running Fedora 38 I have an normal 2.5" SSD drive. The laptop has a NVMe slot so I added a NVMe drive into the laptop.
I Installed the NVMe drive into the laptop and ...
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How to clone / move entire Fedora installation onto larger disk with minimal changes to the system?
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I have an SSD in my computer (250GiB), with both /boot and ///home partitions on it.
I'd like to move that into a new M.2 NVME drive which is much larger (1TiB).
The distro I'm using is ...
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How to assign different ip's on cloned systems (no VM's, embedded systems)
After some research, I am not being able to solve assigning different ip's on cloned systems. Most questions reference working on VM's.
I have an embedded system, I will call it Master: Google Coral, ...
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How to virtualize Win10 from Linux (into VirtualBox on Linux) and shrink it?
Basically, what I need could be similar to what most other people running Windows for work would want, I suppose, so let us get started on my requirements:
Somehow copy a raw disk (e.g. /dev/sda) ...
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Is it possible to copy a disk image to a smaller disk?
Let me explain, for a greater detail (although this casuistry will serve for many more cases): I have a cloned image of a 512GB mSATA disk, which in practice, really dlos comanoes not reach 10GB used ...
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Fix GPT after using dd to clone a smaller disk onto a larger disk
I used dd to clone a smaller disk onto a larger disk, however now when booting I'm getting dmesg errors of:
[Fri Sep 30 11:48:43 2022] GPT:Primary header thinks Alt. header is not at the end of the ...
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Moving Linux image to a different hardware
Should I expect any issues with physically moving Ubuntu 22.04 image on SSD to another, similar PC? The only differences are CPUs (from i5-9600K to i5-12600) and motherboards.
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Access home folder in external hard drive
I recently changed from an HDD to SSD on my machine. The HDD had a dual boot with Windows and openSUSE. The Windows system had no password, the openSUSE had a password.
When putting the HDD in an ...
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Is this a safe way to migrate my data to a new computer?
I recently bought a new laptop and I would like to migrate to it with as little hassle as possible. I don't want to do a fresh install since I have made various tweaks to my current setup for things ...
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How to make an exact clone of my debian system to distribute to Google Coral
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I have set up properly Mendel 10.0 (debian) in a Google Coral dev board, and installed my desired libraries (some through apt install, some through git cloning and make install). The ...
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How to mount a ZFS volume in FreeBSD for cloning
I am in the process of trying to clone a FreeBSD installation onto a new hard drive and need to mount it and then find the mount points in order to proceed with the cloning process.
The internal drive ...
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