I bought a larger internal SSD for my laptop. How would I go about transferrring the data?
I bought a larger internal SSD for my laptop. How would I go about transferrring the data?
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.
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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
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??
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?
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.
I finally got my ssd, but as you can see after cloning the partitions the unallocated space is not next to my / partition. Do you know of any way to move it over or merge them?
