How to change filesystem UUID (2 same UUID)?
I have a fedora guest OS in VMware. I want to expand /boot partition, so I add another virtual disk to this VM, and try to clone the disk.
cloning
Using dd to clone a disk while mounted – risks?
I want to clone a hard disk using dd. Because I want to keep a process on the machine alive continuously, I would like to do this while the filesystem is still mounted. I understand this is not the “ideal” way to do this, but it also seems from Googling that it is possible.
Replicating an SD card
Mon Jun 3 17:53:18 EDT 2019
[sudo] password for user:
Mon Jun 3 23:42:17 EDT 2019
Clone whole partition or hard drive to a sparse file
I like to clone a whole partition or a whole hard drive onto a larger external disk but like to create a sparse file. I often use dd for cloning, but it doesn’t support sparse files. As a workaround I used something like:
How can I use DD to migrate data from an old drive to a new drive?
I am upgrading the internal SATA hard drive on my laptop from a 40G drive to a 160G drive. I have a Linux/Ubuntu desktop which has a SATA card. I would actually like to do the same thing for a couple CentOS & FreeBSD boxes at work, and it seems this would have the same solution.
can ‘dd’ be used to clone to a smaller HDD, knowing that partitions will need editing?
I’ve used dd to clone disks like this:
Cloning a bootable USB stick to a different-sized stick
HARDWARE: 2 8GB USB flash drives
DISTRO: Mint 9 Xfce persistent Live Cd