On Sat, 2018-03-17 at 23:24 +0100, Jens John wrote: > On Sat, Mar 17, 2018 at 05:25:36PM -0400, Trey Sizemore via arch- > general wrote: > > anything else I could do to make the process fast and as close to > > the > > current install as possible? > > Yes. Do not reinstall but migrate your file system contents 1:1 to > the > new disk using rsync. The advantage is that the file system contents > and > therefore system configuration stay the same and you don't have to > waste > time putting stuff together afterwards. > > I used/recommend a procedure similar to [1]. The principle is > basically > the same as a reinstall but instead of bootstrapping from a bare > bones > system you substitute your existing file systems. I don't see any > benefit of doing it differently unless your existing install is > broken > in some way. > > The most time was taken up by copying 512G of file system contents > over > a SATA<>USB3 bridge to the new SSD. If you can put both the old and > the > new drive on a SATA bus, you'll be done in no time. > > [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/migrate_installation_to_new_ > hardware#Top_to_Bottom Thanks Jens. But does the fact that I'm going from a 250GB to 500GB (and different partition sized) complicate this procedure?
