* On 2022 14 Nov 09:16 -0600, Ottavio Caruso wrote: > I have an old Thinkpad on its last legs which I cannot shutdown (long > story). Then I have a slightly better Thinkpad with similar hard > drive. Debian is split into three partitions (root. home and swap)/ > > I'll recreate a similar partitioning from a live usb on the newer > laptop, then I'll mount the root partition, connect to the old laptop > via ssh, copy the data on the new drive, reinstall grub and modify > fstab. > > Will this work?
Yes. I've done this many times and documented it: https://www.n0nb.us/blog/2012/11/ghost-a-partition-contents-with-rsync/ - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: https://www.n0nb.us Projects: https://github.com/N0NB GPG fingerprint: 82D6 4F6B 0E67 CD41 F689 BBA6 FB2C 5130 D55A 8819
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