I also planning to do that and found this: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/disk_cloning#Using_e2image It only copies the used blocks to the new partition Ralf Mardorf <silver.bullet@xxxxxxxx> schrieb am So., 18. März 2018, 04:14: > On Sun, 18 Mar 2018 04:03:41 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > >On Sat, 17 Mar 2018 18:40:33 -0400, Trey Sizemore wrote: > >>On Sat, 2018-03-17 at 23:24 +0100, Jens John wrote: > >>> Do not reinstall but migrate your file system contents 1:1 to the > >>> new disk using rsync. > > > >Why using such an advanced tool for a simple copy? > > > >Run a Linux from a live media and simply do a > > > > sudo cp -a /from/source/mountpoint /to/target/mountpoint > > > >>But does the fact that I'm going from a 250GB to 500GB (and different > >>partition sized) complicate this procedure? > > > >It doesn't matter, don't confuse the copy (or any sync) command, with > >something like the dd command. > > > >Since you don't migrate to other hardware, appart from the drive, you > >even don't need to fix a graphics driver or something like that, you > >only need to reinstall the bootloader after coping all files. > > Oops, perhaps you need to fix fstab, your bootloader's config and > similar files, assuming you are one of those UUID users. If you tend to > use labels instead of UUIDs, you even don't need to fix those > files. After copying the files just use the same label for the new > partition, you used for the partition on the old drive. >
