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Akk Mumin

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Registered: 2017-10-06

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Moving installation to a new SSD partition

Hello, first post here, hope I'm in the right section.

So since the only way to properly clarify my problem in the title was to write a title that was some meters long, I went the other way and I am going to properly clarify my issue here.

I have Windows 10 installed on my ssd(128 gb) and about half of it is being used. I installed arch on on the hdd(1 tb), using about half of it and leaving the other half as storage for windows. Everything went smoothly but one thing. Everything is going really slow, since my system is pretty powerful and it is waiting on the slow hdd.
I wonder if there is a way to create a small partition on the ssd, move the essentials there and voila, enjoy the speed. Maybe even keep some space on the hdd for further installations.
The only problem i find with this way is that the ssd is small, 128 gb only, and it might halt performance for both OS if i cut it in half.
I know the easy solution is to buy a new ssd for 70 euros, but I kinda want to avoid that.
By the way, i have already checked arch wiki and google on the topic, found this http://www.rdeeson.com/weblog/157/movin … with-rsync
but i dont think it applies to my situation.
Any thoughts?

2ManyDogs

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Re: Moving installation to a new SSD partition

Welcome to the forum.

You can use half of the SSD (64G)? That's plenty of space for a complete Arch install. How much of the space on your HDD does your Arch install use now? (I don't mean how much space did you allocate, I mean how much is actually used). If you absolutely need more space after installing Arch on the SSD you can keep some data on the spinner. It's easy to move an install with rsync.

Akk Mumin

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Re: Moving installation to a new SSD partition

Welcome to the forum.

You can use half of the SSD (64G)? That's plenty of space for a complete Arch install. How much of the space on your HDD does your Arch install use now? (I don't mean how much space did you allocate, I mean how much is actually used). If you absolutely need more space after installing Arch on the SSD you can keep some data on the spinner. It's easy to move an install with rsync.

How do I find out exactly how much space is being used? Sorry im still a newb linux user. And what would be the minimum space required for the ssd partition of the arch installation? when i say minimum i mean the essentials plus qtcreator cause thats as much as i use.

Slithery

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Re: Moving installation to a new SSD partition

df -h

'Essentials' is meaningless. We have no idea what you find essential on your system

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Re: Moving installation to a new SSD partition

Not an Installation issue, moving to NC...

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Akk Mumin

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Registered: 2017-10-06

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Re: Moving installation to a new SSD partition

df -h

'Essentials' is meaningless. We have no idea what you find essential on your system

Well then, by essentials i mean everything that is installed using the base and base-devel packages when installing arch plus gnome plus qt/qtcreator(=~ 5.5 gb).
So with that in mind, using the command you kindly provided and adding another ~10gb for extra space on the ssd should give me the size of the partition required.

Having this information and using rsync should get me what i want.
I guess I can try at least.

2ManyDogs

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Re: Moving installation to a new SSD partition

How did you install Arch on the HDD?

Akk Mumin

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Registered: 2017-10-06

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Re: Moving installation to a new SSD partition

How did you install Arch on the HDD?

What do you mean how? I used the arch wiki instructions on how to install.
I created 2 partitions on the hdd, one to be used by linux and one to be used by windows as storage,
and everything after that is exactly like the steps described by wiki.
Only setting up grub was a little bit trickier, since i wanted to dual boot.

Ah, by the way, for the EFI system partition required I used the one windows had already made on the SSD.

Last edited by Akk Mumin (2017-10-07 10:56:09)