[SOLVED] Software and/or procedure to make and exact copy of OS.

MikeWortin · 08-05-2018, 02:07 AM

You can use

Code:

dd if=/dev/SOURCE_DRIVE of=/dev/TARGET_DRIVE bs=4M

to do the exact copy of your SSD. But first you have to remount all your filesystems to RO (read-only) mode

hazel · 08-05-2018, 10:15 AM

I have done it with fsarchiver. It's one of the tools in SystemRescue.

UUIDs are random strings generated by mke2fs and similar utilities. They are stored in the filesystem's superblock. Be aware that, although a UUID is supposed to be unique, if you make an exact copy of the filesystem, the UUID will be the same too.