On Sun, 18 Mar 2018 17:30:27 +0100 Ralf Mardorf <silver.bullet@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. Why is it inappropriate? It should work fine, and work with no other changes. Even the UUIDs/Labels would be the same that way.
