You can makefs with an arbitrary uuid, or, as been said, switch to labels:
>From `man mkfs.ext4`:
*-L** new-volume-label*Set the volume label for the filesystem to
*new-volume-label*. The maximum length of the volume label is 16 bytes.
*-U** UUID*Create the filesystem with the specified UUID
Regar
On 03/18/2018 01:08 PM, Doug Newgard via arch-general wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Mar 2018 17:46:21 +0100
> Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 18 Mar 2018 11:33:19 -0500, Doug Newgard via arch-general wrote:
>>> On Sun, 18 Mar 2018 17:30:27 +0100 Ralf Mardorf wrote:
The "dd" command is inappropriate
You can go with the rsync solution if you create your new filesystems with
the old uuids.
On 19 Mar 2018 3:30 pm, "Jens John" wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Mar 2018, at 14:46, Carsten Mattner via arch-general wrote:
> > On 3/19/18, Paul Gideon Dann via arch-general
> > wrote:
> > > I've moved or cloned m
On 19/03/18 14:29, Jens John wrote:
On Mon, 19 Mar 2018, at 14:46, Carsten Mattner via arch-general wrote:
On 3/19/18, Paul Gideon Dann via arch-general
wrote:
I've moved or cloned my general-use Arch system between disks more times
than I can count. This is what LVM is for. If you're not usin
On Mon, 19 Mar 2018, at 14:46, Carsten Mattner via arch-general wrote:
> On 3/19/18, Paul Gideon Dann via arch-general
> wrote:
> > I've moved or cloned my general-use Arch system between disks more times
> > than I can count. This is what LVM is for. If you're not using LVM (or
> > BTRFS), I reco
On 3/19/18, Paul Gideon Dann via arch-general
wrote:
> I've moved or cloned my general-use Arch system between disks more times
> than I can count. This is what LVM is for. If you're not using LVM (or
> BTRFS), I recommend you start
Which aspect is easier/improved with LVM?
On Mon, 19 Mar 2018 09:17:02 +
Paul Gideon Dann via arch-general wrote:
> I've moved or cloned my general-use Arch system between disks more
> times than I can count. This is what LVM is for. If you're not using
> LVM (or BTRFS), I recommend you start, but in the meantime, the
> simplest solu
I've moved or cloned my general-use Arch system between disks more times
than I can count. This is what LVM is for. If you're not using LVM (or
BTRFS), I recommend you start, but in the meantime, the simplest solution
when moving between systems is to dd the contents of each partition from
the sour
On Sun, 18 Mar 2018 17:46:21 +0100
Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Mar 2018 11:33:19 -0500, Doug Newgard via arch-general wrote:
> >On Sun, 18 Mar 2018 17:30:27 +0100 Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> >> The "dd" command is inappropriate, a "cp -a" is the most reasonable
> >> solution. However, UUIDs are
On Sun, 18 Mar 2018 11:33:19 -0500, Doug Newgard via arch-general wrote:
>On Sun, 18 Mar 2018 17:30:27 +0100 Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>> The "dd" command is inappropriate, a "cp -a" is the most reasonable
>> solution. However, UUIDs are still an issue, the average desktop
>> computer user should conside
BTW. what colour do you like?
On Sun, 18 Mar 2018 17:30:27 +0100
Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Mar 2018 16:51:53 +0100, Ricardo Band via arch-general wrote:
> >On Sat, 2018-03-17 at 17:25 -0400, Trey Sizemore wrote:
> >> Hi all-
> >>
> >> I currently have Arch running on a 250GB drive, and I'm going to be
> >> moving to
On Sun, 18 Mar 2018 16:51:53 +0100, Ricardo Band via arch-general wrote:
>On Sat, 2018-03-17 at 17:25 -0400, Trey Sizemore wrote:
>> Hi all-
>>
>> I currently have Arch running on a 250GB drive, and I'm going to be
>> moving to a 500GB drive.
>
>why not just `dd if=/dev/olddrive of=/dev/newdrive
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On Sat, 2018-03-17 at 17:25 -0400, Trey Sizemore via arch-general
wrote:
> Hi all-
>
> I currently have Arch running on a 250GB drive, and I'm going to be
> moving to a 500GB drive.
why not just `dd if=/dev/olddrive of=/dev/newdrive` and then grow
On Sun, Mar 18, 2018 at 04:13:55AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
Oops, perhaps you need to fix fstab, your bootloader's config and
similar files, assuming you are one of those UUID users. If you tend to
use labels instead of UUIDs, you even don't need to fix those
files. After copying the files just
On Sat, Mar 17, 2018 at 06:40:33PM -0400, Trey Sizemore via arch-general wrote:
Thanks Jens. But does the fact that I'm going from a 250GB to 500GB
(and different partition sized) complicate this procedure?
Absolutely not.
You are going to partition the new drive (and possibly create the LUKS
I also planning to do that and found this:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/disk_cloning#Using_e2image
It only copies the used blocks to the new partition
Ralf Mardorf schrieb am So., 18. März 2018, 04:14:
> On Sun, 18 Mar 2018 04:03:41 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> >On Sat, 17 Mar 2018 18:
On Sun, 18 Mar 2018 04:03:41 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>On Sat, 17 Mar 2018 18:40:33 -0400, Trey Sizemore wrote:
>>On Sat, 2018-03-17 at 23:24 +0100, Jens John wrote:
>>> Do not reinstall but migrate your file system contents 1:1 to the
>>> new disk using rsync.
>
>Why using such an adva
On Sat, 17 Mar 2018 18:40:33 -0400, Trey Sizemore wrote:
>On Sat, 2018-03-17 at 23:24 +0100, Jens John wrote:
>> Do not reinstall but migrate your file system contents 1:1 to the
>> new disk using rsync.
Why using such an advanced tool for a simple copy?
Run a Linux from a live media and simply d
On Sat, Mar 17, 2018 at 05:25:36PM -0400, Trey Sizemore via arch-general wrote:
> pacman -Qqe > pkglist.txt
>
> and then on the new install, I can use the pkglist.txt generated
> previously to:
>
> pacman -S - < pkglist.txt
>
> In addition, by backing up and migrating much of my /home partitio
On Sat, 2018-03-17 at 23:24 +0100, Jens John wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 17, 2018 at 05:25:36PM -0400, Trey Sizemore via arch-
> general wrote:
> > anything else I could do to make the process fast and as close to
> > the
> > current install as possible?
>
> Yes. Do not reinstall but migrate your file s
On Sat, Mar 17, 2018 at 05:25:36PM -0400, Trey Sizemore via arch-general wrote:
anything else I could do to make the process fast and as close to the
current install as possible?
Yes. Do not reinstall but migrate your file system contents 1:1 to the
new disk using rsync. The advantage is that
On Sat, 2018-03-17 at 17:59 -0400, Dorian C via arch-general wrote:
> I'm just curious really, but any particular reason you can't back up
> your
> personal files and do a clean install?
>
I will be doing a clean install. I want to mirror the same setup as
the current install, just on a bigger h
I'm just curious really, but any particular reason you can't back up your
personal files and do a clean install?
On Sat, Mar 17, 2018 at 5:25 PM, Trey Sizemore via arch-general <
arch-general@archlinux.org> wrote:
> Hi all-
>
> I currently have Arch running on a 250GB drive, and I'm going to be
>
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