On Mon, 19 Mar 2018 09:17:02 +0000 Paul Gideon Dann via arch-general <arch-general@archlinux.org> wrote:
I've moved or cloned my general-use Arch system between disks more times than I can count. This is what LVM is for. If you're not using LVM (or BTRFS), I recommend you start, but in the meantime, the simplest solution when moving between systems is to dd the contents of each partition from the source disk to the destination disk, and then expand filesystems as necessary:
sudo dd if=/dev/sdx1 of=/dev/sdy1 bs=1M oflag=direct sudo fsck -f /dev/sdy1 sudo resize2fs /dev/sdy1
Paul
Thanks. I'll give it a try and also go back to using LVM. -- Cheers, Trey ---- There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has not yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day. --Friedrich Nietzsche Linux mint-desktop 4.10.0-38-generic x86_64 06:43:24 up 17:12, 1 user, load average: 0.10, 0.32, 0.75