On Mon, Dec 02, 2024 at 05:49:18PM +0100, Hans wrote: > Hi folks, > > as my old notebook died, I ntend to buy a new notebook. > The old one has got a SSD drive, the new one an NVME. > > I want to clone the whole system 1 to 1 to the new NVME. >
It might be easier to produce a clean new install and then just rsync data from the SSD drive to the appropriate directories on the NVME. > In my /etc/fstab I am using UUID entries instead of /dev/sdX. > The new one then would have /dev/nvme* as entries (that is clear), but if I > am > using only UUID, the question: > > Will the UUID change at clone, even when the partitions are not changed in a > bit of size? IMHO the UUID will not change, but I am not quite sure. > I'm fairly sure this was brought up just about at the end of last month. > When cloning from SSD to SSD this is working, but I have no experience when > cloning from SSD to NVME. > Hoping to keep partition sizes etc. identical across drives is hard so it does seem easier to just copy data from one drive to the other. > Thanks for a short feedback. > All the very best, as ever, Andy (amaca...@debian.org) > Best > > Hans > > > >
