On Thu, 27 Oct 2022 16:02:17 +0200
Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> 1. Format the the new drive with the wanted file system.
> 2. Restart the computer and boot a live Linux from DVD, USB or what ever
>media you prefer.
> 3. Mount the old partition, mount the new partition.
> 4. Open a terminal.
> 5. Bec
On Thu, Oct 27, 2022 at 18:32:42 +0100, pete wrote:
> Thanks for that i am also using syslinux for boot i fell out with grub
> basically the root partition is a result of my cockup i have several 1Tb
> drives i was going to use one of those as the root partition the entire drive
You may want t
On Thu, 27 Oct 2022 16:02:17 +0200
Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> 1. Format the the new drive with the wanted file system.
> 2. Restart the computer and boot a live Linux from DVD, USB or what ever
>media you prefer.
> 3. Mount the old partition, mount the new partition.
> 4. Open a terminal.
> 5. Bec
On Thu, 2022-10-27 at 16:06 +0200, Maarten de Vries wrote:
[snip]
Maarten, you did not reply to the mailing list ;).
> On 27/10/2022 16:02, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > 5. Verify the copy by running
> >
> ># diff -r --no-dereference /mnt/old/ /mnt/new/
PS: I'm not sure, if diff might warn about
1. Format the the new drive with the wanted file system.
2. Restart the computer and boot a live Linux from DVD, USB or what ever
media you prefer.
3. Mount the old partition, mount the new partition.
4. Open a terminal.
5. Become root by running
$ sudo -i
5. Copy the root directory by runn
Got a bit of a problem i need to move the root partition to another drive my
own fault i did not make it big enough to start with but i cant face a
complete rebuild of the system i have several 1Tb drives lurking but how do
i switch things to a new drive .
The easiest and safest way is
You may have multiple options/avenues to achieve this depending on which
filesystem and partitioning techniques you implemented. But before proceeding,
have you tried clearing pacman and Aur caches, removed orphans, untracked or
lost files, etc?
And here is information aligned with "uwe's" feed
Best option would be to boot from USB drive so that the partitions that should
be moved are not in use.
Then you could either move the partitions using "dd" or move the data using
"rsync".
Once the root partition is moved follow the Arch install guide to install the
boot loader on the new
driv
Hi .
Got a bit of a problem i need to move the root partition to another drive my
own fault i did not make it big enough to start with but i cant face a
complete rebuild of the system i have several 1Tb drives lurking but how do
i switch things to a new drive .
I remember doing that many
