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From: The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Move bookworm system from SSD to NVME
Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2024 07:08:13 +0100
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On 01/08/2024 21:15, druck wrote:
> On 01/08/2024 09:20, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>> On 31/07/2024 21:33, druck wrote:
>>> As long as your new NVME is larger than the SSD, you can just do low 
>>> level copy with the dd command, then resize the rootfs partition on 
>>> the new drive to use any extra space with the gparted program (if not 
>>> installed use: apt install gparted).
>>
>> That will at least get over the problem of having a different partuuid 
>> etc
> 
> Yes the dd method will avoid any changes to partuuids, where as if you 
> use the rsync method you will have to change the values in /etc/fstab 
> and also potentially /boot/cmdline.txt (/boot/firmware/cmdline.txt on 
> Bookworm).
> 
>> Is it possible to then create a DIFFERENT partition on the empty part 
>> of the  new disk? And mount it as - say - /home?
> 
> Yes, you can do this with gparted, move the existing /home to the new 
> partition and edit /etc/fstab to contain a line similar to:-
> 
> PARTUUID=abcd1234-03  /home  ext4  nofail,noatime,errors=remount-ro  0 0
> 
Ta. I thought it probably was. My Pi server build could not handle 3 USB 
drives so I need to reconstruct it with just 2, which means cloning the 
OS onto a fraction of a larger disk.

Then creating another partition for all the data under /home

> Then do a:-
> 
> mount -a
> 
> ---druck
> 

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