> On 27 Jul 2018 at 10:57, ToddAndMargo wrote: > > Subject: Re: clone > To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > From: ToddAndMargo <ToddAndMargo@xxxxxxxx> > Date sent: Fri, 27 Jul 2018 10:57:46 -0700 > Send reply to: Community support for Fedora users > <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > On 07/26/2018 05:21 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > I did this ton of times, but this time, it does not work. > > > I even just did it last week on an EFI system without problem > > > Before updating my system (now in fedora 26), I cloned by using another live system. > > > cp -a /root1 /root2 (after mke2fs) > > > cp -a /boot1 /boot2 > > > The /home /tmp are on other partitions > > > /root1 has the entire system > > > and /boot is a boot partition > > > I modified the fstab file properly > > > and I run grub2-mkconfig > > > The new system is detected properly (I can also edit grub.cfg to try to boot > > > on the right partition) > > > > > > But, I cannot boot on /root2 (using the /boot1 or /boot2) > > > > > > Is is a relabeling issue? > > > > > > How can I relabel from grub2 ? > > > It seems that using touch /root1/.autorelabel > > > I can only relabel the partition /root1 (and not /root2) > > > > > > As I said, I did this tens of times. > > > > > > Thank. > > > > > > > Hi Patrick, > > > > I don not know if this will help, but what the heck ... > > > > I have tried manually doing clones with dd and had no success > > whatsoever. > > > > That being said, I use Clonezilla on weekly basis and it > > works wonderfully. > > > > https://clonezilla.org/downloads.php > > > > Seen thread but on Vacation, so only have remote access to main systems. > I maintain the G4L disk imaging project, and its primary backup uses dd and > default lzop compression to make image files. > It does have a clone option that makes disk to disk clones, but one issue that > sometimes happens. If you do a disk clone the block ids of the disks are the > same, and if ones loader is using blkids to load partitions, it is confused, > since each disk is suppose to have different block ids. > In my classroom, I had 20 systems, and would broadcast using udpcast to > the other 19 systems, but since all machines were separate no issues on > boot. > Had a user do a clone in same machine to another disk, and did allow > booting from either disk. He could boot from either disk if he disconnected > the other. > He manually changed the block id on cloned disk, and modified the grub.cfg > and then it worked fine. I used cp -a, and the UUID cannot be confused since there are all different. I just need to be careful when I edit the grub.cfg file. I did this operation tens of times, and this time I could not fix it. I will try again later. > I generally make compressed images to an ftp server or external usb device. > G4L can be added to the boot options, and run from ram after loading from > /boot. > > So, another 2 cents. > > > The iso cuts beautifully to a flash drive with dd > > > > -T > > _______________________________________________ > > users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html > > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > > List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/message/HGCWHOUBRA4GSKF7DI5EKPCFNU7ZUGNN/ > > > +------------------------------------------------------------+ > Michael D. 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