I also planning to do that and found this: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/disk_cloning#Using_e2image It only copies the used blocks to the new partition Ralf Mardorf <silver.bullet@zoho.com> schrieb am So., 18. März 2018, 04:14:
On Sun, 18 Mar 2018 04:03:41 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
On Sat, 17 Mar 2018 18:40:33 -0400, Trey Sizemore wrote:
On Sat, 2018-03-17 at 23:24 +0100, Jens John wrote:
Do not reinstall but migrate your file system contents 1:1 to the new disk using rsync.
Why using such an advanced tool for a simple copy?
Run a Linux from a live media and simply do a
sudo cp -a /from/source/mountpoint /to/target/mountpoint
But does the fact that I'm going from a 250GB to 500GB (and different partition sized) complicate this procedure?
It doesn't matter, don't confuse the copy (or any sync) command, with something like the dd command.
Since you don't migrate to other hardware, appart from the drive, you even don't need to fix a graphics driver or something like that, you only need to reinstall the bootloader after coping all files.
Oops, perhaps you need to fix fstab, your bootloader's config and similar files, assuming you are one of those UUID users. If you tend to use labels instead of UUIDs, you even don't need to fix those files. After copying the files just use the same label for the new partition, you used for the partition on the old drive.