Post B1rcb2TINTmdm51ZpI by kyle@mastodon.kylerank.in
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 (DIR) Post #B1rcb2TINTmdm51ZpI by kyle@mastodon.kylerank.in
       2026-01-02T04:57:13Z
       
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       My recent interest in local AI models and gaming are taking their toll on my Framework 13 storage, but with the price bump for SSDs I decided to harvest an underused 2TB NVMe drive from a spare laptop/server instead.The last two days I did a migration dance to downsize a Debian server to a smaller disk, and a Bluefin workstation to a larger one. In both cases I found it simplest to do a fresh install on the "new" drive and migrate appropriate data over from the old one.#linux
       
 (DIR) Post #B1rdbXIzq10DMH0ZG4 by kyle@mastodon.kylerank.in
       2026-01-02T05:08:32Z
       
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       In the past if I were migrating the Debian system to larger storage, I'd consider using dd and then growing the file system afterwards. Or alternatively manually make partitions and use my find | cpio or rsync methods to just move files over, then reinstall GRUB.In this case moving to a smaller drive in one case, and growing an encrypted btrfs disk (with internal volumes) in another made things complicated enough that reinstalling + selective file sync was the simplest approach.