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Serge2702

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From: México City

Registered: 2014-01-14

Posts: 73

[Solved] Copying my installation to another partition.

Hello. I have 5 partitions in my laptop: one with Linux Mint, one with Arch, another one with my files, and I use the other two for testing other distros. I don't have a bootloader in Arch, I use Mint's GRUB for detecting and booting any distro. I want to do some experiments in Arch, but I don't want to mess up my main installation, and I don't want to reinstall it again in another partition. So, I was thinking, is it possible to just copy all the files of the Arch partition in another one, and then edit fstabs so it mounts the correct root partition? Or this won't work?

Last edited by Serge2702 (2014-01-29 04:21:19)

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: [Solved] Copying my installation to another partition.

You can try https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fu … with_rsync

WonderWoofy

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From: Los Gatos, CA

Registered: 2012-05-19

Posts: 8,414

Re: [Solved] Copying my installation to another partition.

You can try https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fu … with_rsync

I have used this a number of times, and it works quite well.  You might also want to add '-H' (to make it -aAHXv) so that hard links are preserved.  This will make the rsync process more resource intensive though.

Serge2702

Member

From: México City

Registered: 2014-01-14

Posts: 73

Re: [Solved] Copying my installation to another partition.

Yes, I have followed the steps and it worked , apparently all the services are working and this is an exact copy of my arch installation. Now I can try a lot of things without fear of messing something up (like trying to set correctly the linux-lts kernel )