Subj : Re: Move bookworm system from SSD to NVME
To   : druck
From : The Natural Philosopher
Date : Fri Aug 02 2024 07:08:13

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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