Copying MBR
Posted: 2020-04-30 Filed under: system | Tags: clone, dd, disk, mbr, partition Leave a commentI’ve been doing some disk partitions cloning between disks of different size. I needed to copy the master boot record (MBR), where LILO is, from one disk to another. I searched a bit and found a handy tutorial.
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XFS duplicate UUID
Posted: 2019-07-15 Filed under: system | Tags: clone, disk, mount, uiid, XFS, xfs_admin Leave a commentDuring my disk cloning exercises, I stumbled upon an issue when cloning a partition formatted as XFS. Cloning with dd went fine, however, when trying to mount the newly created partition in Thunar, I would get an error (sorry no screenshot). Then, I tried to mount in manually and investigate what the problem was.
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Disk cloning
Posted: 2019-07-14 Filed under: system | Tags: clone, dd, disk Leave a commentAbout half a year ago, I needed more space for my ThinkPad x230 laptop. I had a 256 GB SSD, running Slackware 14.2, so I bought a new SSD of 1 TB. I did not want to go through all the hustle of repartitioning, reinstalling and reconfiguring, therefore I also bought a Fujitech Clone Dock 2. It is fairly simple to use, just place the disks in the correct order: Disk 1 (256 GB) to be cloned onto Disk 2 (1 TB), turn it on and click the Clone button twice. However, there is no way to tell the device to clone a specific partition only.
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