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Re: "cloning" a debian installation


On 02/01/2014 12:53 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:

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




Sorry, my bad for not replying to the list.
Just to be clear, your advice is
-I first partition the ssd on my existing system
-I then copy on the different partition my existing file system
At this point I guess I can remove the previous hdd.
- From a live media I then run either "sudo chroot /mnt" or "sudo systemd-nspawn -D /mnt" 
-and finally "grub-install /dev/sda"

Well that seems quitte doable. Thank's for the advice.
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