On Thursday, 28 November 2019 17:59:09 GMT Ralph Corderoy wrote: > I think Hamish had it right if you're happy with your old system and > don't want to start from a fresh install of Kubuntu from installation > media. On the other hand, if you think a fresh install might have > benefits then I'd do it from installation media and not by copying an > existing 19.10 installation.
I've already done a clean install. > Boot something like Clonezilla from a USB stick and have it copy all the > used old disk, partition table and all partitions, to the new disk. I'm using Parted Magic, so I have everything! > Given the caddy is probably a bottleneck, I'd put the old disk in there > as reading is normally quicker than writing and the caddy may have less > impact. Also, caddy interfaces can be flaky compared to having the > drive installed properly. I suppose I could do the copy with both discs connected to the SATA buses, by removing the smaller SSD that contains my root partition and plugging the old one in its place. I only have two buses, so I can't simply connect everything at once. > Afterwards, if the new disk is working well, boot from a USB stick again > and use something like gparted to adjust the partitions to use more of > the disk if you want, e.g. expand /home assuming that's the last > partition before all the free space. Or you can combine partition > resizing with the initial copying in Clonezilla if you're confident. > https://clonezilla.org/clonezilla-live/doc/03_Disk_to_disk_clone/advanced/05 > -advanced-param.php That's pretty much what I was intending to do when I'd restored the Redo Backup image. > If you want to juggle partitions around on the new disk then it may be > better to do it all with gparted from a live USB stick, creating the > partition table, then copying/resizing each partition in turn to create > your preferred layout and sizes. I'll see what works best when I get back to Dorset on Monday. See Y'all Tuesdaay. -- Terry -- Next meeting: BEC, Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2019-12-03 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk
