26 Sep
2024
26 Sep
'24
5:53 p.m.
dep composed on 2024-09-26 17:38 (UTC):
said Felix Miata via tde-users:
| dep wrote:
| > All that isn't /home is on a 75gb partition on sda, and I thought I'd
| > just dd it over. But then it occurred to me: wouldn't that create the
| > problem of two drives with the same UUID?
|
| e2fsck -f <targetdevicename>
| tune2fs -U random -L mylabel <targetdevicename>
|
| is normal procedure here following cloning from partitions.
Thanks. Forgive my denseness, but is this before or
after i dd it over?
following == after
You could do it before, or any time, as long as you account for the change in
appropriate fstab(s) and grub.cfg(s), but you'd still need to do it after.
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