How can I copy /home and / to new partitions on the same drive which I can boot into for testing.
Clash Royale CLAN TAG #URR8PPP up vote 5 down vote favorite I'm running kubuntu 16.04. I messed up UEFI (long ago), so it boots without it, but my Windows 10 partition won't boot. I don't care about that at the moment. root is 30GB on sda4 home is 50GB on sda5. All that works fine. I copied root to root2 and home to home2 using rsync. I want to use these new partitions to experiment with upgrading kubuntu while leaving my main system intact. Later, I want to make another copy of root and home just for backup (in other partitions I have set aside) and I will want that to be bootable as well. root2 is 30GB on sda6 and home2 is 50GB on sda7. I modified /etc/fstab on root2 to reflect the new partition LABELs. When I try to boot using root2 (from my grub menu), I get into an ash shell from busybox and have to reboot to get out of it, so I did something wrong in grub or Linux and it looks like it can't find where or what to boot. It displays some sort of tracebac...