I'm just curious really, but any particular reason you can't back up your personal files and do a clean install? On Sat, Mar 17, 2018 at 5:25 PM, Trey Sizemore via arch-general < arch-general@archlinux.org> wrote:
Hi all-
I currently have Arch running on a 250GB drive, and I'm going to be moving to a 500GB drive.
I'm looking for 'best practices' when it comes to the migrating as much as possible during the re-install.
It appears that I can migrate my installed packages (standard and AUR repos) via:
pacman -Qqe > pkglist.txt
and then on the new install, I can use the pkglist.txt generated previously to:
pacman -S - < pkglist.txt
In addition, by backing up and migrating much of my /home partition (to include 'hidden' config files, anything else I could do to make the process fast and as close to the current install as possible?
Thanks!