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this post was submitted on 21 Jun 2024
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Well not really, cloning is much easier than reinstalling and then configuring everything again...
I have LVM set up from the start, so usually I just copy the /boot partition to the new disk, and the rest is in a LVM volume group, so I just use pvmove from old disk to the new one, fix the bootloader and fstab UUIDs, and Im ready to reboot from new disk, while I didnt even left my running system, no live USB needed or anything. (Of course I messed it up a first few times, so had to fix from a live OS).
But once you know all the quirks, I can be up and ready on a new drive withing 20mins (depends mainly on the pvmove), with all the stuff preserved and set
That's really cool, how can I learn more about LVM and that kinda stuff?
There is many tutorials and how tos, this is quite nice one:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/LVM
BTW some filesystems like btrfs and ZFS already have a similar functionality built in...
Thanks :)