copy full system from old disk to a new one

[Heinz Diehl]

On 17.02.2013, Reindl Harald wrote: 

> if wouldn't do this and stick with dd / disk images and use gparted
> to resize partitions because if i clone machines i want to have
> all UUID's the same 

You can easily change/tailor your UUIDs with tools like tune2fs,
xfs_admin etc.. The "dd" approach has a bunch of disadvantages, one of
the biggest is misalignment if your new drive is a SSD or advanced
format HDD.