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Clonezilla on normal running system

I only used Clonezilla on Live USB and tried to use it inside running Ubuntu 14.04 amd64, so before installed it in usual way apt-get install clonezilla Then inserted source USB drive to clone ...
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Problem cloning from USB to SSD

I'm trying to build a mini server using an Intel NUC and a couple of external hard drives. The challenge is I'm trying to do it completely headlessly (as my monitors and TV are about 5,000 miles away ...
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script to automatically create ext4 and swap in unallocated diskspace

I have to setup/install a number of machines. Some machines have Windows 7 installed. Some machines not. The machines have either 0, 2, or 3 partitions. Every machine has enough free diskspace (20 to ...
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Is it necessary to change hostname following cloning to multiple machines?

I am cloning multiple laptops in a school environment with edubuntu 12.04. There are some network issues that have resulted with machines not connecting to the wireless. There are 130 machines in ...
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DD question copying 2 select partions to target

Using ubuntu for few weeks now and its excellent. Really like the dd copy tool but i would like some advice on using it. I copied all my installers to a partitioned ssd i now need to reverse but each ...
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Best noob friendly way to clone SSD with ubuntu

I'm trying to clone an SSD with Ubuntu and some other programs on it. I want to make an exact copy and not just copy the partition. What's a good way to do this? Anyone know any good youtube ...
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Live system backup or cloning?

I -was- a great fan of Systemback & it saved me from some serious headaches in the past. Its own dev abandoned it, and though there are forks of it I have yet to find any fork that is as ...
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NTFS filesystem partition detected as unknown on Linux after HDD cloning

I have a problem with one of my partition. I have cloned my HDD with a bigger one to have more space. Now Ubuntu is working perfectly but my second partition (/dev/sda4) which I know is a NTFS ...
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Using dd only on Ubuntu live USB for cloning a partition?

I have successfully used dd to clone a partition (/dev/sda2) to an image file on another device (/dev/sdb1) This was done using commands entered into a terminal using a live USB session. My question ...
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Recover free disk space after cloning partition

I cloned an initial partition which size was 350Gb into a new partition in another disk which size was 450Gb. All went well and everything works fine. However, when I take a look at file systems in ...
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Cloning Windows 8.1 with Ubuntu dd

Will there be any problem/caveat when I have a hda disk with Windows 8.1 system and with a bootable flash disk I enter under Ubuntu system this command: dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=1M
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Unable to boot cloned Ubuntu on SSD

I brought a 240GB SSD and installed in my laptop using HDD Caddy. After that I cloned my previous Ubuntu partition to new SSD partition following MovingLinuxPartition blog. After following steps I ...
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What is for Ubuntu phones the equivalent to booting from a live USB?

Is there a feasible method to boot Ubuntu Touch - on a bq E5 - to bootfrom the mmc card or a USB device ? I am searching for the equivalent to similar methods of desktop Linux, in order to: - copy/...
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How Can the GRUB configuration be ideally adjusted after copying from one SSD unto another to make a backup OS disk

I want to make a backup copy of one disk to another using the dd mode of Clonezilla, this using the advanced options of "e2, j2, icds, and iefi" which have their descriptions in the advanced ...
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Issues cloning an external install of Ubuntu

I have a bit of a weird situation regarding cloning a drive. I work at a university in the visual resource center. For archiving we wanted to have a local installation of a program called Access to ...
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Do I need to clone an Ubuntu system drive to make a bootable copy?

I like to make bootable copies of my system drives so that when the drive eventually fails, I can replace it and be running again in minutes. With Windows it is necessary to clone the system drive ...
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Not able to clone Ubuntu 22.04 on USB using Clonezilla

Successfully created Ubuntu 22.04 USB disk after following the tutorial at: How to Create a Full Install of Ubuntu 22.04 to USB Device Step by Step To create full backup of the USB I am selecting ...
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Access home folder in external hard drive

I recently changed from an HDD to SSD on my machine. The HDD had a dual boot with Windows and Linux. The Windows system had no password, the Linux had a password. When putting the HDD in an enclosure ...
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Copy Linux to a new machine

I have a Linux machine that was set up over a period of two years, and I want to "clone" it to a new machine (a different computer model). I thought of booting the old machine to a flash ...
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Updating snaps runs for ages after cloning HDD

I have cloned my HDD drive due to a smart notification that my HDD will be halted. Everything seems to work correctly apart from the following: When using software updater during the end of the update ...
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Migrating currently installed system (20.04) to new hardware

I just built a new computer and want to migrate my existing Ubuntu 20.04 installed system upon it. A fresh install is out of question since I got quite a complex system with tons of personalizations ...
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Problem accessing ASMedia USB 3.0 to SATA external drive adapter

I have a problem accessing a drive connected with ASMedia USB 3.0 to SATA external drive adapter on Ubuntu 18.04. I've seen similar questions, but in my case there are no errors reported. Here are the ...
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Cannot get system to boot upp with new cloned disks

Just tried to upgrade my disks from mechanical to SSD type drives on my ASUS M4A785-M motherboard (non-UEFI). Thought I had prepared thoroughly and it seemed that the process was not too difficult for ...
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How to clone windows partitions to be able to wipe them out and later restore them?

The problem is the following: I installed Ubuntu to my Dell laptop, and I want to free the space occupied by Windows (which I don't use anymore). I plan to sell the machine in the future, so I'd ...
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how can I quickly clone a boot disk?

I have a boot disk (running ubuntu) that is all set up with nginx, php, motion, and some other server stuff, on a 16GB disk drive, using the entire disk. I have several computers to deploy this disk ...
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Transferring data between drives of dissimilar capacities

I have a 80 GB hard drive which contains a copy of Ubuntu and a total of about 20 GB of data. I would like to transfer this data over to a SSD that is 60 GB in capacity. I've looked at tools such as ...
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clone installation of Ubuntu 16.04 to identical pc

I have read many questions similar to mine, but still can't get it to work. I have a working pc with 2 hard drives, ssd drive of 256 GB on which the OS is installed (/dev/sda), and 1TB sata drive for ...
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How can I get DPKG in ubuntu to handle this packages.txt?

I have a host machine, and a miner. The miner is trying to install a file called packages.txt via dpkg with the set selections and get-selections, and some sudo something <($ cat packages.txt) ...
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Is it safe to stop dd after 30 mins, to add bs= to speed things up?

I've been running dd for about 30 mins, and would like to stop using ctrl-c, and then restart using bs= to speed the process up. Is this safe? Will stopping dd midway through copying from internal ...
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Question about cloning

It is my third time installing Ubuntu 16.04 on Linux because what I am trying to do is create a webserver for internet and intranet users, and because I am new, messing around with settings opens up a ...
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Why git clone command isn't working?

I'm new to github and was trying out the git clone command, and when I try to run it , it gives me an error saying Cloning into 'rugged'... Warning: Permanently added the RSA host key for IP address '...
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move/clone existing external USB installation to internal partition shared with Windows

My question is similar to this one, except I'm trying to clone my existing Ubuntu installation on a 40GiB external drive to a new partition on an internal drive shared with Windows. I've been running ...
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'command not found' after disk clone

I cloned the OS disk using a disk cloning device. Booting of Ubuntu off the cloned disk was successful, however, every command returned the error 'command not found.' If I reboot the machine it fixes ...
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Cloning SD card 4GB to SD card 8GB

I need the whole system, all scheduled data, settings, and overall everything I have on the SD card (linux) with 4GB convert to another SD card. How can I do this? My notebook have ubuntu. Both ...
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Cloning my Hard drive.

2 weeks ago I installed ubuntu and after my back-up hard drive failing I moved all my data onto the hard drive too. I have a Mac laptop and now my replacement hard drive has arrived. I was wondering ...
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Does cloning my HDD to an external HDD leaves the external drive useless?

I'm planning to clone my 320gb HDD, having abut 100gb data to a 1tb external HDD. I fear doing so will leave my external hard disk useless. Will it still be possible to store other data there after ...
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Alter MBR order of partitions after copying partitions to larger drive

I have a new 1TB laptop drive that I want to clone an existing drive to. The issue is that I want to reorder and resize the existing partitions. The existing partition table for the drive is ...
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cloning disks with Lubuntu 12.04 lead to LVDS interface error

I want to ask about a problem I´m having when I want to clone an image of Linux Lubuntu 12.04 from one PC to another. Both systems are identical, hardware, memory and CF cards. The source system runs ...
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Installing windows 7 from hdd to ssd, ubuntu 16.04

So I have a x220, it came with a hdd with only windows 7 installed on it. Last week, I backed up the hdd to an external drive, then tried to clone it windows 7 over to the ssd, with my usb y cable to ...
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