Re: hard drive cloning

2021-05-12 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Wed, May 12, 2021 at 12:57 AM Yasha Karant wrote: > > Quoting: > > Many open source and commercial cloning tools will do a *much* faster > and more efficient duplicate. End excerpt. > > I assume faster and efficient is by comparison to a drive cloning device > with two slots, one for the sourc

Re: hard drive cloning

2021-05-12 Thread Alec Habig
Correct, the "old" disk now mounted as a usb drive would have a UUID which would conflict with the "new" system disk. However, this is easily solved by changing the UUID on the now-usb disk to something new before your mount it. # tune2fs -U random /dev/sdc1 is just one way to do so. --