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    Moving an image from one machine to another to boot off it

    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...
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    Why doesn't the dd command produce a bootable clone disk?

    That is certainly very clever and maybe just what I needed.
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    Solved Battling to expand partition

    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
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    Why doesn't the dd command produce a bootable clone disk?

    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...
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    Why doesn't the dd command produce a bootable clone disk?

    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
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    Why doesn't the dd command produce a bootable clone disk?

    Given I run LVM Maybe there is another approach, clone the root volume group (rhel) to the other SSD.
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    Why doesn't the dd command produce a bootable clone disk?

    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...
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    Why doesn't the dd command produce a bootable clone disk?

    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...
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    Cloning an SSD

    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)...
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    Cloning an SSD

    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...
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    Issues tethering a device

    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...
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    Factors affecting decryption speed: SSD, CPU and RAM

    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...
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    Dual booting Linux and Windows 7

    I applaud you for keeping Seven alive. You are not the only one. Some people like it and have no real reason to change.
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    What Linux distro should I use as a beginner?

    You know, you are right to the power of N.
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    Asperger's syndrome helps in IT

    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...
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    VeraCrypt on Linux?

    VC is a proven technology, they have been around. Used for a decade on Win* platform. They don't do encrypted bootloader for UEFI systems however. For that I use bitlocker. All of my hardware is encrypted main partition-wise.
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    James Bond Style Encryption: Using Cryptsetup LUKS to Setup Encryption with Plausible Deniability

    Thanks for posting, will review it shortly. I wanted to make a container, an encrypted volume on Linux. I've already done so on Win10. It appears as a raw filesystem.
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    Choosing a laptop for linux

    I got all kinds of flavors installed on MSI Titan GT80. It's a gaming machine. No issues running Xubuntu on Dell 7720 and 7750. Go for i7 CPU and 16GB of RAM, there is no advantage to i3 price-wise. I got a Dell 7570 with i5 and it's cheap, with 16GB of RAM. It flies with an SSD. Also running...
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    XFCE in Xubuntu 24.04 with virtual desktops switcher

    I got the multiple virtual desktop thing, it's nice. The switcher. Control-> moves to the right one. I find it much more user friendly versus packing everything in one window. I forgot if it's a built-in XFCE function or I had to install some 'aftermarket' package, since I've done so much to...
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    Disabling touchpad when mouse is connected Xubuntu 24

    I am using synaptic driver to handle the touchpad. Strangely when I boot the machine, the touchpad does not work at all until I plug in the mouse. I need to check if that is still occurring. I tried so much need to go back and review all that I did. There was that script I found floating...
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