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    [–] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    @partizan@lemm.ee mentioned cloning the drive and moving it to another computer. I imagine reinstalling would be easier at that point, that's why I asked.

    [–] kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 4 months ago

    And reinstalling the packages, moving over all the configs, setting up the partitions and moving the data over? (Not in this order, of course)

    Cloning a drive would just require you to plug both the old and new to the same machine, boot up (probably from a live image to avoid issues), running a command and waiting until it finishes. Then maybe fixing up the fstab and reinstalling the bootloader, but those are things you need to do to install the system anyways.

    I think the reason you'd want to reinstall is to save time, or get a clean slate without any past config mistakes you've already forgotten about, which I've done for that very reason, especially since it was still my first, and less experienced, install.

    [–] partizan@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

    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

    [–] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

    That's really cool, how can I learn more about LVM and that kinda stuff?

    [–] partizan@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

    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...