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77 questions linked to/from Backup/clone live to a new partition which can be booted
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Dual boot, copied ubuntu to new disk and then deleted old disk. Now grub is giving the error message: no such device:
My setup before:
SSD-1 containing windows 10 with all of its recovery etc. partitions
SSD-2 empty
HDD-1 containing ubuntu 20.04 root directory + grub partition
HDD-2 containing /home directory, which ...
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Is a clean install better than upgrading?
Is it better to install Ubuntu completely new or is the upgrade process just as good? In other words, will my computer run just as problem-free and efficiently when I upgrade as opposed to a fresh ...
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Copy updated & upgraded package to new linux system
I have a Linux system with updated and upgraded packages and i install new linux system in another disk i want to copy the updated and upgraded packages from the old system to the new system to avoid ...
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How do you set up GRUB after duplicating a drive with Clonezilla in the same PC?
My context (to avoid the XY problem)
I have a 500GB SSD that may be failing and is now too small. After a thorough backup, I will replace it with a 1 TB drive in the same slot and move the 500GB to ...
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Moving entire Linux installation to another drive
I have Ubuntu 14.04 with a lot of packages and work-related stuff that I am very happy with it. It is installed on my main SSD drive which is a 120GB one (I had chosen "/" when I installed ...
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Grub terminal after cloning Ubuntu 16.04 from internal SSD to external HDD
I currently have Ubuntu 16.04 installed on my E580 thinkpad's 240 SSD. I want to clone my installation to an external 1Tb HDD and then replace ubuntu with Windows 10 on the SSD. The reason is that I ...
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Ubuntu Development version / How to participate, or how to get a smooth ride
Questions about the Ubuntu Development version
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AskUbuntu is dedicated to helping users with the current released versions of standard Ubuntu and Ubuntu community flavours (Kubuntu, Lubuntu ....
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How To Create a Bootable Clone of boot disk
In my environment I have 2 MAC Minis, a Windows10 machine, and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. On the MAC minis, I run SuperDuper to create a bootable clone on an external hard disk. Is it possible to do the same ...
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How to back up my entire system?
If I want to make a backup of my entire OS (including but not just my home directory), how do I go about this?
Is it as simple as backing up everything in / and then when if I suffer a crash, just ...
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How to manually mount a partition?
There are many questions on automatically mounting or problems encountered during mounting that I've read here. But none on how to manually mount a partition.
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Convert ubuntu vm into a physical machine when the host is a Windows system
I have a virtual machine, created under virtual box. How can I convert this into a physical machine to be installed to a partition on my hard drive? My host operating system is windows.
I have not ...
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How to change UUID in the /boot/grub/grub.cfg
I am asking how to change uuid in /boot/grub/grub.cfg, so that grub can load OS on a specified partition.
I have two disks:
SSD /dev/sda1 with uuid d7f0cf11-3edf-4859-b65a-3b5bc60ea7b9
HDD /dev/...
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rsync symlink failed: Operation not permitted (1)
When I run either of these commands, I get the error rsync symlink failed: Operation not permitted (1):
sudo rsync -aAXv --delete --exclude=/dev/* --exclude=/proc/* --exclude=/sys/* --exclude=/tmp/* \...
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Upgrade Ubuntu 16.04 LTS to Ubuntu 20.04.2.0 LTS via Terminal
How can I Upgrade Ubuntu 16.04 LTS to Ubuntu 20.04.2.0 LTS via Terminal?
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I want to back up everything, OS and files to a USB. it says my hard drive disk is about to fail
It says my hard drive is about to fail and that it's reached temperatures of 93F, so i want to have everything backed up and ready for if or when it fails. i know of ways that i can save a back up ...
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