Re: Moving root partition to another drive

[Jedisocialist <Jedisocialist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You may have multiple options/avenues to achieve this depending on which filesystem and partitioning techniques you implemented. But before proceeding, have you tried clearing pacman and Aur caches, removed orphans, untracked or lost files, etc? 

And here is information aligned with "uwe's" feedback .

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/System_backup


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El 27 oct 2022 15:37, Uwe Sauter < uwe.sauter.de@xxxxxxxxx> escribió:
> Best option would be to boot from USB drive so that the partitions that should be moved are not in use.
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> Then you could either move the partitions using "dd" or move the data using "rsync".
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> Once the root partition is moved follow the Arch install guide to install the boot loader on the new
> drive (arch-chroot, grub-install, etc…).
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> Am 27.10.22 um 15:34 schrieb pete:
> > Hi .
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> > Got a bit of a problem  i need to move the root partition to another  drive  my
> > own fault  i did not make it big enough to start with but i cant face a
> > complete rebuild  of the system  i have several 1Tb drives lurking  but  how do
> > i switch things to a new drive  .
> >
> > I remember doing that many many years ago  but cant remember how now any help
> > out there  would be greatfull
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Pete