Getting new hardware - can I just move the disk?

[Colin Watson]

On Tue, Oct 12, 2021 at 11:20:10PM +0200, Bo Berglund wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Oct 2021 22:32:57 +0200, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> >Not at all, no. A live medium can access all the drives in the
> >computer, without user accounts or anything. (If the drives are
> >encrypted you do need the password, though.)
> >
> >You can't run programs installed on the hard disk, though.

(Or at any rate not without a bit of setup.  Again, no technical
limitation, you just need to know how to do it, and it's probably quite
hard for anything graphical.)

> Is rsync available (in the live part I mean) so it can be used from within that
> to sync drives?

Yes.

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Colin Watson (he/him)                              [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]