Arch Linux

ivayl0

Member

Registered: 2024-05-25

Posts: 2

Moving only /home partition to new SSD and other shenanigans

Hello fellow arch users. I have a bit of a situation I need some help with:
I got a new SSD, a Samsung 980 PRO 1TB that I wanna use to upgrade my laptop. Basically, here's what I need to do, but I need some help with some parts of it:
- moving only /home partition to the new ssd to reinstall arch with GRUB instead of systemd-boot and also set up secure boot and as a whole have a clean root partition as I've gotten a bit of trash on my current install I wanna get rid of. Ideally, I wanna use the archinstall script because I don't wanna bother with the DIY approach - trying to get stuff done faster (need help with the moving/cloning the /home partition only and making sure archinstall doesn't conflict with that? Also, I'll be reserving around 600GB for the /home partition and 100GB for the root partition, giving Windows 10 around 300GB.)
- Installing Windows 10 aside of Arch on the mentioned 300GB reserved for it and getting GRUB to recognize it. (pretty easy to do and I think I'll figure it out myself)
- Finally, secure boot. Just want it enabled so that I don't have problems with some games that have anticheats that are picky for it. (i do need help with this because i've had a headache trying to get it to work before, probably a skill issue on my end though)

Thanks for any help beforehand!

Trilby

Inspector Parrot

Registered: 2011-11-29

Posts: 30,456

Website

Re: Moving only /home partition to new SSD and other shenanigans

All of these topics are well documented in the wiki (or the archinstall documentation).  So what are you looking for here?  What questions / challenges have you ran into?

(tldr: RTFM)

---

"UNIX is simple and coherent" - Dennis Ritchie; "GNU's Not Unix" - Richard Stallman

ivayl0

Member

Registered: 2024-05-25

Posts: 2

Re: Moving only /home partition to new SSD and other shenanigans

Moving the /home partition. I only started using arch about 2 months ago, otherwise using debian-based distros and fedora only, and still, I haven't really dived deep into more expansive stuff. Only used my laptop like a normal computer for school, games, etc. That's my problem right now. We'll see if I go into any other roadblocks down the process..