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What's your preferred method for upgrading your system drive? (feddit.uk)

submitted 3 days ago by DampSquid@feddit.uk 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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[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 28 points 3 days ago (3 children)

For my personal workstation, it's such a rare thing I always use that an excuse to start from scratch again. If it's like a business system or something, usually build a new system and migrate data and services to it gradually.

I so rarely do in-place upgrades of system drives unless it's a recovery or something.

[–] BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I'm about to do just that, but a bit overwhelmed. Over the many years of using Debian (not a heavy user though, only some slow progressing self host projects), there are many utilities or programmes I installed that I wouldn't remember, is there an easy way to identify what is not "base" Debian and list them, so I'd reinstall them?

[–] Carl@anarchist.nexus 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Pretty much this. I’d copy anything I want to keep onto a temporary drive, (cloud storage, a USB drive, second SSD, etc), then use it as an excuse to refresh my install. Then just copy everything from that temporary storage after my new install is finished.

[–] njordomir@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

True. Starting with a fresh install can be more of a performance boost than buying a new drive. Add them together though and your computer is going to feel like future tech. I'd also just reinstall, unless its a server or a pain to rebuild.