I'm just curious really, but any particular reason you can't back up your personal files and do a clean install? On Sat, Mar 17, 2018 at 5:25 PM, Trey Sizemore via arch-general < arch-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi all- > > I currently have Arch running on a 250GB drive, and I'm going to be > moving to a 500GB drive. > > I'm looking for 'best practices' when it comes to the migrating as much > as possible during the re-install. > > It appears that I can migrate my installed packages (standard and AUR > repos) via: > > pacman -Qqe > pkglist.txt > > and then on the new install, I can use the pkglist.txt generated > previously to: > > pacman -S - < pkglist.txt > > In addition, by backing up and migrating much of my /home partition (to > include 'hidden' config files, anything else I could do to make the > process fast and as close to the current install as possible? > > Thanks! >
