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#17
Originally Posted by fanoush View Post
If you used tar for cloning, make sure GNU tar was really executed, not busybox tar. busybox tar has path limited to 100 chars so not everything is copied. Then it reboots like this. Just run tar with same path without arguments to see which tar it is or run it without -v and check for error messages about 100 character path limit.
critical is to unmount before rebooting, then sync is not needed. sync without unmounting helps a bit but is not ideal at all.
No wonder, I think that deserve to be in the instruction as well.