Questions tagged [cloning]
Duplicating an installation of Linux or other Unix-like operating system. See also /migration
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Cloning Linux installation to another drive
I've backed up a Fedora 42 installation using tar, and now I am trying to restore the backup to a different drive on the same system, basically cloning the original installation. The original ...
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Can you swap a Linux Mint installation from a laptop to Raspberry Pi 5?
I am new to using Linux after deciding to go all in and wipe my laptop drive and clean install Linux Mint on my old laptop which is not supported by Windows 11. The laptop has now given up the ghost, ...
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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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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?
Scenario 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
Background: 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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