[tde-users] Re: Another stupid question. Two, actually.

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.