submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
 

You are going to fuck this up. Don't come crawling back to me when you lose all your data since the dawn of time and you completely brick this goddamn computer. This is your one and only warning.

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[–] 56 points 9 months ago (1 child)

Maybe its also a ship of theseus type situation. If you have to copy /etc/ from somewhere else, is it still the same installation?

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  • [–] 18 points 9 months ago

    In modern Linux and assuming you did no pre-filtering or post-processing, no. machine-id systemd is a thing, fstabs commonly use device UUIDs now snd so forth with various subsystems. A laptop GRUB config commonly has the resume UUID set (sleep/hibernation stuff), a server typically has network configs tied to the hardware IDs, and on and on...

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