Re: [arch-general] Re-install of Arch on a larger drive

2018-03-17 Thread Ralf Mardorf
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 adva

Re: [arch-general] Re-install of Arch on a larger drive

2018-03-17 Thread Ralf Mardorf
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 d

Re: [arch-general] Re-install of Arch on a larger drive

2018-03-17 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Sat, Mar 17, 2018 at 05:25:36PM -0400, Trey Sizemore via arch-general wrote: > 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 partitio

Re: [arch-general] Re-install of Arch on a larger drive

2018-03-17 Thread Trey Sizemore via arch-general
On Sat, 2018-03-17 at 23:24 +0100, Jens John wrote: > On Sat, Mar 17, 2018 at 05:25:36PM -0400, Trey Sizemore via arch- > general wrote: > > anything else I could do to make the process fast and as close to > > the > > current install as possible? > > Yes. Do not reinstall but migrate your file s

Re: [arch-general] Re-install of Arch on a larger drive

2018-03-17 Thread Jens John
On Sat, Mar 17, 2018 at 05:25:36PM -0400, Trey Sizemore via arch-general wrote: anything else I could do to make the process fast and as close to the current install as possible? Yes. Do not reinstall but migrate your file system contents 1:1 to the new disk using rsync. The advantage is that

Re: [arch-general] Re-install of Arch on a larger drive

2018-03-17 Thread Trey Sizemore via arch-general
On Sat, 2018-03-17 at 17:59 -0400, Dorian C via arch-general wrote: > I'm just curious really, but any particular reason you can't back up > your > personal files and do a clean install? > I will be doing a clean install. I want to mirror the same setup as the current install, just on a bigger h

Re: [arch-general] Re-install of Arch on a larger drive

2018-03-17 Thread Dorian C via arch-general
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 >

[arch-general] Re-install of Arch on a larger drive

2018-03-17 Thread Trey Sizemore via arch-general
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: pacma