What's your preferred method for upgrading your system drive?
2026-08-15 01:25 UTC
Swapping out an old 2TB pcie 3 drive for a newer 2TB pcie 4 drive.
I was leaning towards using dd, after shrinking the partition on the source drive so it doesn’t also ‘copy’ all the empty space.
Have you done this recently? What was your method?
Or is there a CachyOS/kde tool I may be unaware of?
Replies (4)
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@GaumBeist@lemmy.ml 2026-08-15 07:29
Clonezilla Live USB ftw
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@haxboar@hexbear.net 2026-08-15 06:11
I have a bunch of scripts to install my systems. Anything important is already backed up to my storage system.
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@MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2026-08-15 08:28
Adjust partition size if neccessary, then cp /dev/sda /dev/sdb.
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@MangoPenguin@piefed.social 2026-08-16 02:06
I use a decent cloning tool like foxclone, dd isn’t really the right tool for that kind of thing IMO.