USING GRSYNC IN LINUX MINT INSTALL

It ignores the settings 'copy symlinks as symlinks', 'copy hardlinks as hardlinks' and even the additional command '-a -no-links' which I added in the extra options. I have tried again with all methods, but all failed: Note - in macrium reflect there is a clone option but you have to hunt around on the backup screen to find it - the text is small. You have to boot from mint installation media and manually fix fstab. Net result - it won't boot cos the UUIDs are all wrong. Gparted is my friendĪlso I've tried that timeshift route and it doesn't work, one reason being that it will overwrite your new fstab with the old one from the timeshift snapshot. You also have to make sure that all the partitions are at the front of the source drive and all the unallocated space at the end. The second was more convoluted 240G SSD > 320G HDD, put in laptop to boot and delete a load of stuff, then shrink > 120G SSD. One 500G HDD to 240G SSD, second 240G SSD to 120G SSD. In both cases I shrank the partitions on the source drives to make sure they would fit on the destination.

I used it twice, first to clone an HDD with win10 and lubuntu on it to an SSD, and second to clone ssd in another laptop running LM19.0 onto an SSD in yet another laptop.

Preserve: time, owner, permissions, groupsīut does it manage Ext4 partitions while running in Windows? Now I have formatted the destination drive gain and it is ready for the cloning. How should I set Grsysnc to clone correctly the system, without the files from the other drives present in the system? (sdx was the correct drive, and I mounted it, by clicking on it in Nemo) I run this command from a live USB: 'sudo grub-install -boot-directory=/mnt/boot /dev/sdX'.

USING GRSYNC IN LINUX MINT INSTALL

In the source installation, the home directory is located in a separate partition (on the same disk of the root drive).Īs first I have to clone the installation to another drive, already partitioned ( it is smaller than the source drive), and then move the home directory into the root partition, in the cloned installation.ġ) In Grsync I have selected the advanced options 'copy symlinks as symlinks' and 'copy hardlinks as hardlinks', which should copy only the links to media files/devices, and not all the physical files.īut I see it starts to copy all the GB of files from the media drives, then I have stop the process.Ģ) I have tried to install grub in the destination drive, to make it bootable (all the system files in / seemed to have been already copied), but I get an error, as if it could not find the drive. I am trying to clone my Linux installation using Grsync, following some instructions found also here, but they don't work as expected.

Using grsync in linux mint