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Kether

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Registered: 2024-09-25

Posts: 1

Moving /root and /boot to a new SSD

Greetings,

I've been being bothered by my past self's decision to make the root a separate partition and only 32gb for a couple years now and I've finally hit the tipping point where after skimming on packages and clearing the caches so hard it eroded the SSD -Syu ended up installing with 0 blocks remaining.

After this I decided that the best course of action would be to either resize root or get another drive for it, so I went with the latter. Regarding that, I have a couple questions, so here they are:

1 - Will getting a fast(er) SSD improve the boot times?
2 - How would I go about transferring the partition from drive to drive? Would I have to mkfs ext4, copy boot and root, resize the original home partition to the full drive size, then update fstab (if necessary)?

Thanks in advance :)

d_fajardo

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Registered: 2017-07-28

Posts: 1,650

Re: Moving /root and /boot to a new SSD

Will getting a fast(er) SSD improve the boot times?

Yes

How would I go about transferring the partition from drive to drive? Would I have to mkfs ext4, copy boot and root, resize the original home partition to the full drive size, then update fstab (if necessary)?

Start from here.
Make sure you make backups of your most important files before doing any changes.

Last edited by d_fajardo (2024-11-05 21:36:02)

kermit63

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Registered: 2018-07-04

Posts: 254

Re: Moving /root and /boot to a new SSD

pay extra attention to 3.4 (reinstall the boot loader) of the link d_fajardo provided, since this is the part where a lot of people seem to f*ck up. It may be prudent to refresh your memory on how you installed the boot loader in the original installation.

Last edited by kermit63 (2024-11-06 00:42:25)

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