On Sun, 18 Mar 2018 16:51:53 +0100, Ricardo Band via arch-general wrote: >On Sat, 2018-03-17 at 17:25 -0400, Trey Sizemore wrote: >> Hi all- >> >> I currently have Arch running on a 250GB drive, and I'm going to be >> moving to a 500GB drive. > >why not just `dd if=/dev/olddrive of=/dev/newdrive` and then grow the >filesystems in it change UUIDs in fstab, done? The "dd" command is inappropriate, a "cp -a" is the most reasonable solution. However, UUIDs are still an issue, the average desktop computer user should consider to prefer a lable over an UUID.