Best way to transfer my installation to another drive?
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.
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
Add to this: I once used clonezilla to clone boot drive with LUKS partition and let clonezilla handle partition table.
The LUKS partition expanded, but what's under LUKS partition is bugged (keeps it's initial size, but there is no free space in LUKS container), I have to use gparted in a live system to fix it.
Clonezilla https://clonezilla.org/
^ 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
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.
cp /dev/sdX /dev/sdY. Really, it's that simple, just replace sdX and sdY with the device files for the source and destination drives.
I never knew cp could do this!
I’m currently about to do the same. Anyone know if its fine to just clone the disk of a luks encrypted partition in clonezilla?
You could just use the "dd" command. Example: sudo dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb status=progress # In this example, sda is the source drive and sdb is the destination...
Remember,
ddstands for disk destroyer. It's a powerful tool, but if you mistype something or get drives mixed up you will destroy data.I like ddrescue for almost every case I would use dd :)
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.