I bought a new ssd that is way faster and larger than my current one. What is the best way to transfer everything from my old drive to my new one. Currently running Fedora 38, fine with the command line. If nothing else I will just do a clean install on the new drive and copy over what I need from /home on the old drive.

    • jaykstah@waveform.social
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      1 year ago

      ^ Yeah I second this. Make a bootable flash drive with clonezilla on it, boot from that, and clone your original disk to the new SSD

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    1 year ago

    Clonezilla is an awesome tool. If you have doubts about the procedure test it out in a virtual machine. Testing in VMs will save you so much grief.

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    1 year ago

    Look at Clonezilla. It’s a specialized Linux distro that does some interesting things, including cloning.

    When I tried it I found it confusing and didn’t feel like figuring it out at the time so I just did a clean install ahaha. YMMV.

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    1 year ago

    Some prefer CloneZilla, some prefer Acronis, the idea is the same though.

    Just don’t forget to expand your volumes once you’re done cloning