On Fri, Mar 02, 2018 at 04:10:24AM -0000, 'awokd' via qubes-users wrote:
> On Fri, March 2, 2018 3:38 am, Glen H wrote:
> > On Thursday, March 1, 2018 at 10:37:26 PM UTC-5, Glen H wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >>
> >> My primary SSD is out of space and I have a second hard drive.  I've
> >> formatted it but not sure how to migrate my cubes to it.  Does anyone
> >> have any instructions for doing this?
> >>
> >> Ideally, I'd boot from my new hard drive and use original one to store
> >> my backups of my qubes.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >>
> >> Glen
> >>
> >
> > I forgot to mention that I'm on Qubes 4 and I'm pretty knowledgeable
> > about Linux.
> 
> Make sure you do a backup first. You might be able to "cheat" and DD the
> small drive to the larger then expand, as long as you're comfortable with
> LVM. On the other hand, pulling the small drive, installing Qubes on the
> new, and restoring from backup wouldn't take that much longer.

If you cheat you'll have to fix grub if you're using it. I suspect it'll
be cleaner to take the second option and install 4.0 on the new drive
when it comes out.

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