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Mounting OS Disk tips

The OS partitioning I like to have on my devices is similar to this:

block_device
|- EFI
|- /boot
|- LUKS encrypted partition
   |- LVM PV
      |- [lvm lv] /
      |- [lvm lv] swap
      |- [lvm lv] /home

Manually Mounting

A quick reminder on how to manually mount such a layout, i.e. on a live CD:

cryptsetup open /dev/nvme0n1p3 os
pvscan
lvscan
mkdir -p /sysroot
mount /dev/mapper/vgkubuntu-root /sysroot
mount /dev/mapper/vgkubuntu-home /sysroot/home
mount /dev/nvmep0n1p2 /boot
mount /dev/nvmep0n1p1 /boot/EFI

Syncing data while keeping all permissions

rsync -avHAXW --numeric-ids --rsync-path='sudo rsync' /sysroot/ user@target_host@target_path
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