Re: Moving Fedora system to new disk

[Chris Murphy]

On May 29, 2014, at 5:31 AM, Timothy Murphy  wrote:
> Heinz Diehl wrote:
> > > I'm planning on moving the Fedora-20 system on my laptop
> > > to a new hard disk (500GB instead of 80GB).
> > I've done that quite often, and it's no problem.
> > Boot from an external medium, e.g. www.sysresccd.org
> > Mount both disks
> > Use "rsync -avxHSAX /source/ /target" to copy the partitions
> > Install grub2 on the new disk:
> > mount /dev/sdaX /mnt
> > grub2-install --root-directory=/mnt /dev/sda
> > grub2-mkconfig -o /mnt/boot/grub2./grub.cfg
> >
> > Reboot, and you're done.
>
> Don't you have to correct UUIDs in /etc/fstab on the new disk?

Yes. And good chance you'll need to run dracut to rebuild all initramfs's; for sure if it's being moved to new hardware. It might tolerate same hardware, different drive and fs volume UUID, but I know that the initramfs contains references to the volume UUID so you're better off rebuilding the initramfs's.

Chris Murphy