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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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[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Huh.

I never thought of using that feature of btrfs that way. Brilliant.

[–] DampSquid@feddit.uk 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, I think i'll give this a go

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I would add that a slightly better way would be to do it in raid1 mode instead of single mode.

That way you can move the data over by running a balance, instead of by removing the old volume, which would survive the process being interrupted by a reboot or whatever else.

Then after the balance you can remove the old volume and turn the new one back into a single mode volume.