Migrating system to new drive

my installation is lvm2 over luks. I wish to transfer my entire system to a new drive. if I first encrypted the new drive then used
dd if=/dev/<source> of=/dev/<destination>
, would the result be adequate or should I use first set up lvm on the new device then use rsync? would dd preserve my lvm scheme?
Last edited by shoelesshunter (2015-01-07 16:42:15)

It's not clear what <source> and <destination> are, so FYI you'd have to dd the old encrypted device to the new raw device or the old decrypted device to the new decrypted device. But since you've already set up encryption I assume you'd go with the latter.
But I also vote for the rsync method. Just make sure to use the correct flags; there's a wiki page on the topic IIRC.

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