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

2018-03-18 Thread Doug Newgard via arch-general
On Sun, 18 Mar 2018 17:46:21 +0100 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sun, 18 Mar 2018 11:33:19 -0500, Doug Newgard via arch-general wrote: > >On Sun, 18 Mar 2018 17:30:27 +0100 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > >> The "dd" command is inappropriate, a "cp -a" is the most reasonable > >> solution. However, UUIDs are

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

2018-03-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 18 Mar 2018 11:33:19 -0500, Doug Newgard via arch-general wrote: >On Sun, 18 Mar 2018 17:30:27 +0100 Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> The "dd" command is inappropriate, a "cp -a" is the most reasonable >> solution. However, UUIDs are still an issue, the average desktop >> computer user should conside

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

2018-03-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
BTW. what colour do you like?

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

2018-03-18 Thread Doug Newgard via arch-general
On Sun, 18 Mar 2018 17:30:27 +0100 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sun, 18 Mar 2018 16:51:53 +0100, Ricardo Band via arch-general wrote: > >On Sat, 2018-03-17 at 17:25 -0400, Trey Sizemore wrote: > >> Hi all- > >> > >> I currently have Arch running on a 250GB drive, and I'm going to be > >> moving to

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

2018-03-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 18 Mar 2018 16:51:53 +0100, Ricardo Band via arch-general wrote: >On Sat, 2018-03-17 at 17:25 -0400, Trey Sizemore wrote: >> Hi all- >> >> I currently have Arch running on a 250GB drive, and I'm going to be >> moving to a 500GB drive. > >why not just `dd if=/dev/olddrive of=/dev/newdrive

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

2018-03-18 Thread Ricardo Band via arch-general
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On Sat, 2018-03-17 at 17:25 -0400, Trey Sizemore via arch-general wrote: > Hi all- > > I currently have Arch running on a 250GB drive, and I'm going to be > moving to a 500GB drive. why not just `dd if=/dev/olddrive of=/dev/newdrive` and then grow

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

2018-03-18 Thread lists
On Sun, Mar 18, 2018 at 04:13:55AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: 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

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

2018-03-18 Thread lists
On Sat, Mar 17, 2018 at 06:40:33PM -0400, Trey Sizemore via arch-general wrote: Thanks Jens. But does the fact that I'm going from a 250GB to 500GB (and different partition sized) complicate this procedure? Absolutely not. You are going to partition the new drive (and possibly create the LUKS

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

2018-03-18 Thread Florijan Hamzic via arch-general
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 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: