Questions tagged [clone]
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Cloning a Linux disk containing LVM logical volumes
I have a GNU/Linux installation with an unencrypted primary partition (boot partition) and a LUKS primary partition containing two LVM logical volumes (root filesystem and swap space):
/dev/sda1: (...
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How to copy partition with trimming?
I want to clopy a partition between SSD devices. Normally I could do it simply with the "dd" or "buffer" commands.
However, now that I have SSDs, I also would like to miss the ...
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Both original and cloned Disks fail to boot post cloning using dd
I've attempted to clone a HDD to a SSD using dd using the following command
sudo dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdc bs=32M status=progress
as per this page. (I used sudo because it didn't give me permission ...
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How to Convert a Virtual Machine Image to a Physical Machine?
I have a virtual machine running on Virt-Manager, and I need to convert this virtual machine into a physical machine. The virtual machine is running SONiC.
Could someone provide a detailed guide or ...
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Is there a way to backup/clone 3 drives onto a single drive without ending up with 3 different partitions on Arch Linux?
I have 3 very old hdds that are all lacking and are at least 12 years old. I know you can use a Tool like dd to clone a drive bit by bit, but only if there exists a free partition for it. I want to ...
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Cloned Linux disk seems to be unusable
I am trying to create a fully functional clone of my Linux system's hard drive - meaning I would be able to replace the original hard drive with a clone, boot from it and continue using it. I have ...
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Clone Linux OS Btrfs disk and boot with cloned disk 2024?
Disk D is a typical Linux installation. D has EFI (boot) and Btrfs (the rest) partitions. If I have a disk E whose size is > D, how can I clone D on E, and boot with E? Is that possible without too ...
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fork() is very slow
I have a Linux server running Ubuntu 18.04 on a VM. Executing any task like ls -l or w frequently takes several seconds to finish. strace -c ls -l says ls only takes a few milliseconds, but running ...
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Boot problem after cloning
Guess this is the first time I post a question here. Have been playing with Linux and VMware servers for more than 10 years now. Lately I decided to move my focus on Debian desktops and ProxMox (again)...
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how to clone UEFI bootable USB disk onto another disk (possibly of different size)
How can I clone my existing UEFI bootable disk, so that the copy is identical?
I have tried creating new bootable disk, using same procedure, same label name, and same UUID and PARTUUID labels for the ...
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dd not enough space
I have a drive that is about 1TB big. It is mostly free space. When you add up the size of all the partitions, it is less than 256GB.
I have another drive that is 256GB.
I would like to clone the data ...
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Safest way to clone OS disk besides dd and Clonezilla
I would like to clone my OS drive, to a same/larger disk. And I will do this periodically.
On Windows I use AOEMI Partition Assistant to clone disks. The GUI is very good and idiot-proof. However, ...
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How do I adapt a .img clone of my hard disk (1 partition with openSUSE) to another computer?
I have used the dd command to backup my Linux partition (openSUSE Tumbleweed) into a .img file that I saved on an external hard drive.
However, I guess dd-ing it on another computer may cause problems,...
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Clone of a functional 32GB SD card doesn't boot
I have a Pine64 from the original Kickstarter (2016.) It boots from a 32GB SD card, which I've imaged from an Ubuntu16 Pine64 image file.
I've created a full disk backup of this 32GB SD card using ...
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Can't boot from SSD after it was moved into an external case
I used a SSD in an ASMT 2105 harddrive docking station connected to my Pi4 for installation (Raspbian Pi OS).
After moving the SSD into a smaller external SSD case, the Pi won't boot anymore (no ssh ...
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