On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 1:34 PM, T Elcor <tel...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > I have two identical hard drives, one HD contains a bootable wheezy > installation and I'd like to clone it to the other HD. My first idea was > to use "dd" but since grub2 uses disk IDs in /boot/grub/devices.map > and /etc/fstab then once the disk is cloned it probably will not boot, > unless I fix the entries in the above files. To fix the files I need to > know disk IDs and partition UUIDs... not sure how to get them. Is > there an easier way to clone a bootable disk without editing grub2 > and fstab files?
"dd ..." should preserve the UUIDs but you can get the UUIDs from "blkid". -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAOdo=syxjfvfcub-zrucvcvtbmw89j8s0axft+mxrh6_mkn...@mail.gmail.com
