Re:Using the same Arch Linux installation for a decade
by 5e92cb50239222b on Tuesday August 16, 2022 @12:33PM
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I do that routinely. Boot from a liveUSB, rsync data from the main system, fix the bootloader and a couple of configs like /etc/fstab. Works like a charm every time.
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Re:Using the same Arch Linux installation for a decade
by gspr on Tuesday August 16, 2022 @02:15PM
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> I do that routinely. Boot from a liveUSB, rsync data from the main system, fix the bootloader and a couple of configs like /etc/fstab. Works like a charm every time.
Just be careful if you intend to keep the old system running. You probably don't want to clone /etc/machine-id and similar (see: the problems that come with exactly cloning VMs). But of course, if the old system is being destroyed, then no worries.
Re:Using the same Arch Linux installation for a decade
by foepys on Tuesday August 16, 2022 @01:08PM
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I did exactly this a few times, too.
My Arch is from 2007 or so and had only a few hiccups. The last thing happened when MD5 was getting deprecated for /etc/passwd and the automatic migration to another hash algorithm was not working, which is obviously directly related to the age of the installation.
It is running on its third mainboard/CPU/GPU combo with maybe the fifth HDD/SSD.