My machine is currently using a SATA SSD, but I have just added a new NVMe SSD which should be slightly faster (I hope) I'd like to move my Debian install from the SSD to the new drive. If it matters, the machine is an early generation I-7 desktop.
I am currently running on Trixie with a lot of added software installed, including some compiled from source with a lot of dependencies. Because of this, I'd MUCH rather move everything over instead of just installing from scratch. Searching has found a few suggestions to use Clonezilla, but if I understand the docs on it correctly, the target drive must be the same size or bigger than the destination. Both drives are nominally 1TB, but the KDE partition manager says the SSD is bigger by a few GiB. The SSD is 953.86 GiB, and the NVMe drive is 921.51 GiB, is this enough of a difference to keep Clonezilla from working? (The SSD is not terribly full, probably on the order of 60-70%) I also have the SSD split up into multiple separate partitions, so I don't think the other solution I've seen of using rsync would work easily...
What is the best way to make this move happen? Pointers to other references are welcome, I don't mind reading the manual...
I am currently running on Trixie with a lot of added software installed, including some compiled from source with a lot of dependencies. Because of this, I'd MUCH rather move everything over instead of just installing from scratch. Searching has found a few suggestions to use Clonezilla, but if I understand the docs on it correctly, the target drive must be the same size or bigger than the destination. Both drives are nominally 1TB, but the KDE partition manager says the SSD is bigger by a few GiB. The SSD is 953.86 GiB, and the NVMe drive is 921.51 GiB, is this enough of a difference to keep Clonezilla from working? (The SSD is not terribly full, probably on the order of 60-70%) I also have the SSD split up into multiple separate partitions, so I don't think the other solution I've seen of using rsync would work easily...
What is the best way to make this move happen? Pointers to other references are welcome, I don't mind reading the manual...
Statistics: Posted by ex-Gooserider — 2024-04-09 03:39 — Replies 4 — Views 59