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rhysperry111

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From: Yorkshire, UK

Registered: 2019-01-28

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[Solved] How to migrate installation to a new drive.

I am getting a new laptop and am currently figuring out how I am going to move my installation onto it. At first I thought it was going to be simple but I really don’t want to make mistakes so thought I might as well ask for your opinions. My current setup is a single partition MBR setup but I need to change it to a multi-drive GPT disk. Eg:

Current setup: [MBR (/)] - 500gb HDD

What I would like: [GPT (/home and /opt)] - 1TB HDD
                             [GPT (rest of /)] - 16GB Optane

Does anyone have any ideas on how I could do this without reinstalling? Just so U know I also have a back -up so it is ok if it doesn’t right the first time.

Last edited by rhysperry111 (2019-05-21 15:18:15)

2ManyDogs

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Registered: 2012-01-15

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Re: [Solved] How to migrate installation to a new drive.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mi … w_hardware

rhysperry111

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From: Yorkshire, UK

Registered: 2019-01-28

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Re: [Solved] How to migrate installation to a new drive.

I’m not sure if I’m just being blind but I don’t see instructions about moving to a new disk without a)reinstalling or b)creating an EXACT copy of the previous disk.

Just to be clear the new disk would need a totally different partition layout and not just to be cloned.

2ManyDogs

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Re: [Solved] How to migrate installation to a new drive.

See https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mi … e_new_HDDs

You can use rsync to copy the content. This would not be a clone. If you have a full backup, use rsync to copy that to the new partitions.

fl3g

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Registered: 2025-08-14

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Re: [Solved] How to migrate installation to a new drive.

https://github.com/KodaDev07/Arch-migra … drive-bash

i used these cmds after formating the drive

ewaller

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Re: [Solved] How to migrate installation to a new drive.

fl3g,  Welcome to the forums.   Be sure to watch the date of the threads to which you are posting.  This is six years old.

Using this opportunity to close this thread.

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