On Mon, 12 Aug 2019, at 21:02, Matt Zand via arch-general wrote: > 1- what is the easiest way to do this? rsync -aAXv --progress --human-readable $source $destination > 2- do I need to partition hard-drive of new PC exactly as old one? No. > 3- will root and other user credentials stay the same? No, because I wouldn't recommend overwriting the default shadow and passwd files without fixing and matching UIDs/GIDs for system accounts already present in Arch. Yes, because of course you can set passwords and secrets as you see fit. Treat data and system configuration as different entities; the rest will follow.
