Re: How to migrate Ubuntu to new computer?

I found out that problem myself. Ubuntu uses a different disc formatting than the other distro’s uses.

On Wed, Feb 27, 2019, at 15:54, Carruth, Rusty wrote:
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> Interesting. I’ve done cloning for years with little problem. But then, I don’t do RAID, LVM, or encryption. I can see how that would be a little difficult.
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> Beware, though, of just bringing your entire home dir across to a new version. Often the dot files will be wrong, some fatally so. (Voice of experience!)
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> Rusty
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> *From:* PLUG-discuss [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@lists.phxlinux.org] *On Behalf Of *Michael Butash
> *Sent:* Monday, February 25, 2019 3:02 PM
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> *Subject:* Re: How to migrate Ubuntu to new computer?
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> Agree here, cloning disks on linux haven't worked for me in 20 years, particularly doing anything like raid, encryption, or lvm. Start over and just get a base os working.
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> OS is fairly irrelevant outside of sysctl's and services loading from etc, but meshing between major revisions or distributions here is problematic at best. Clean build is best.
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