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istipisti113

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Registered: 2023-05-22

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Moving partitions of arch

Hi, I have been using arch for a while, and now i have come to the conclusion that i don't need windows on my laptop, so i uninstalled it. It took up my whole SSD, and arch was on the HDD. But as I said i removed windows and I want to put arch on the SSD. I tried several ideas, but none seemed to work. I tried to boot into gparted live, but it didn't work. Should I reinstall arch on the ssd?

2ManyDogs

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Re: Moving partitions of arch

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=57855

What (exactly) did you try and what exact error messages did you get?

Have you read this topic? https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Migrat … w_hardware

Or this one? https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Rsync# … tem_backup

Moving to Newbie Corner.

istipisti113

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Registered: 2023-05-22

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Re: Moving partitions of arch

Thanks for the links. I have tried to copy the partitions to the new ssd, but when i try to mount it to make the fstab it gives the error  "mount: /mnt: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/nvme0n1p3, missing codepage or helper program, or other error.
       dmesg(1) may have more information after failed mount system call.". I think that it might would be easier to reinstall arch completely on the ssd and copy the config files and the package list and what not.

I am trying my best to give enough information, but I don't really know what to copy. I tried to copy all four partitions (boot, swap, root, home), but when I try to mount the root partition on the running one it gives the error above. Is it even a good idea to copy the whole partition to a new drive, and is it a problem that the new partition which I copy to is bigger than the original?

Thanks for answering!

Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: Moving partitions of arch

when i try to mount it to make the fstab it gives the error  "mount: /mnt: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/nvme0n1p3, missing codepage or helper program, or other error.
       dmesg(1) may have more information after failed mount system call."

So which filesystem is present?

# wipefs /dev/nvme0n1p3

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