As well as all my important stuff in /home, can I transfer over the operating system as well as everything in the root partition? What about the Windows Partition? Thanks in advance.

  • minimalfootprint@discuss.tchncs.de
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    22 days ago

    I did this a few weeks ago with two M.2 drives and just one slot on my motherboard.

    • boot into clonezilla
    • clone smaller drive onto the bigger one (I used and external enclosure via USB)
    • shutdown and swap drives
    • reboot into live medium
    • resize partitions on the new drive with gparted
    • reboot and check/adjust UEFI settings if needed
    • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works
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      22 days ago

      Bookmarking this, but still sounds a bit more of a hassle than it should be. I’ve done this before with some paid software packages and am disappointed this is not part of the operating system. Like, hey OS. It’s 2024 and I’d like to upgrade my HD. Can you give me a hand? Go fuck myself? - go spend 4 hours nervously playing with software I’ve never heard of before? OS I thought we were cool??

    • Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
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      22 days ago

      This sounds fairly straightforward. Does it work to note down the partition sizes initially, and then just make sure they’re the same type and bigger on the new drive?

      • minimalfootprint@discuss.tchncs.de
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        22 days ago

        Clonezilla creates a 1:1 copy on the new drive. I went from 1 to 2 TB and had 1 TB of unallocated space left. You can use the space to increase other partitions or make new ones.