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I made an image of an installed OS on one machine, then tried to boot off that image (On an external 2.5" SSD Samsung T9). I did not really expect it to work and I got the dracut prompt /dev/rhel/root does not exist and so on. Entering emergency mode. Is that due to the differences in...

That is certainly very clever and maybe just what I needed.

Yes, it's 2 commands in pair: lvextend resize2fs first check how much free space you got: vgdisplay -v | grep -i free run commands like vgs, pvs, lvs to get an idea what you got

I could do this. The problem is, I have 2 identical SSD's, Samsungs M.2 and when booted off gparted I have no idea which one is the source and which one is the target. I know when physically looking at the machine, the working one is on the left and the one to be wiped out is the one on the...

There is this article from Redhat. Although it looks a bit questionable. There is this bit about cloning the partitioning scheme. https://access.redhat.com/discussions/2158911 sfdisk -d /dev/vda | sfdisk --force /dev/vdb

Given I run LVM Maybe there is another approach, clone the root volume group (rhel) to the other SSD.

That is the syntax I followed. Of course I ran it from the disk I was currently booted off. Why wouldn't that work? It runs and completes with no errors, just that when I reboot and select the /dev/NVME_target SSD, it does not boot. The 2 SSDs are obviously identical. They could different in...

I do not fully get it. dd is supposed to completely clone a disk, bit-by-bit. Yet I could never get it to create a bootable clone and had to resort to apps like Clonezilla, etc. It runs, completes, but the target disk is not a bootable device. Seems like it's missing the bootloader or the...

I have Clonezilla working very well on Linux. I cloned from different SSDs. e.g. From Samsung 970 Plus to Samsung 980 Pro. They very obviously appear as such and it is impossible to mistaken them. My setup being such that 980 Pro is always the primary and 970 Plus is always the backup. (target)...

I got a server with two identical SSDs, one has a good install of RHEL, other one does not. They are M.2 PCIe/NVMe. The problem is that when I boot into Clonezilla, I do not know which device file correlates to which physical location. They are identical. does p0 mean it's my source and p1 my...

The server got no wifi card so I tethered a device. It is found hardware-wise and configured as a wired device but no wifi networks appear. lspci/lsub and stuff all show it. Just tried everything I could for two hours to no avail. The wpa scan shows no networks. After starting the service with...

I got an identical version of VeraCrypt installed on 3 differently configured machines (hardware-wise). The OS is identical in all 3 cases, identically configured (all clones). 1. i7-6820hq with 32GB of RAM and Samsung 2TB 980Pro SSD 2. i7-10750H with 32GB of RAM and Samsung 2TB 970 Pro 3...

I applaud you for keeping Seven alive. You are not the only one. Some people like it and have no real reason to change.

You know, you are right to the power of N.

I got a friend whose husband has it. He is extremely meticulous, tidy, procedural, explicit, linguistically precise. Yet sometimes - often - he gets things wrong due to his aspie/autism. Here is an example. She sends him a list of groceries to buy for dinner. He goes shopping and gets...