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MarsDrums

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Registered: 2024-01-12

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New computer / old configs

I just built a brand new computer with NVMe drives. My old system had an SSD and HDD. The HDD was 4TB and I'd love to be able to copy over all of my config files from it to the new system. I have the old drive in the new machine, I can see everything on the old drive perfectly fine. What's the best way to transfer everything over to the new NVMe drive?

Also, I'm using the same Desktop (Tiling Window Manager) on the new system as I was using on the old system. I also managed to copy the Tiling Window Manager folder to the new drive just fine but I'm wondering if there might be a better way to transfer files, maybe at a command prompt, to the new system drive.

Last edited by MarsDrums (2024-06-26 17:14:05)

seth

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Re: New computer / old configs

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Migrat … w_hardware
But if you only want to copy your $HOME the approach is only limited by personal preferences - cp -ar and rsync will do as will your preferred GUI filemanager
The hardware details btw don't matter, you're operating on a filesystem, not on a device driver.

Edit: typo (it's gotten f**n hot) and also, -a actually implies -R

Last edited by seth (2024-06-26 18:50:06)

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