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What's your preferred method for upgrading your system drive? (feddit.uk)
submitted 3 weeks ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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Swapping out an old 2TB pcie 3 drive for a newer 2TB pcie 4 drive.
I was leaning towards using dd, after shrinking the partition on the source drive so it doesn't also 'copy' all the empty space.
Have you done this recently? What was your method?
Or is there a CachyOS/kde tool I may be unaware of?

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[–] 1 point 3 weeks ago

Personally, when I get a new SSD I:

  • Format as 4Kn (for 'Better' or 'Best' performance)
  • Reinstall my preferred distro with a seperate home subvolume/partition (and tmp, var, etc. often with nodev,nosuid,noexec set)
  • Copy my /home across, and parts of /etc.
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