Re: "cloning" a debian installation

[Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net>]

On Fri, 2014-01-31 at 22:41 +0100, Fabrice Vaillant wrote:
> Your solution seems the easiest of the adequate solution I have 
> received. Howewer I have received a pm about clonezilla which seems like 
> a tool tailored for this kind of job.
> What are the advantage of each solution ?
> How do you install a bootloader ?
> Can I remove swap from my "new" install (BTW I do not use the hibernate 
> function)?
> 
> On 01/31/2014 09:59 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > I would simply use sudo cp -pr.

Please reply to the list only.

I've got no knowledge about SSDs, but I suspect partitioning and the
needed bootloader are equal to HDDs.

>From a live Linux media mount the copied install and after that run

sudo chroot /mnt

or

sudo systemd-nspawn -D /mnt

and then

grub-install /dev/sda