[nmglug] Cloning again

[Robert Citek]

Greetings, Brian.

You write "clone".  What do you mean by "clone"?  Are you using cp, rsync,
dd, something else to create the clone?

A slightly different approach ...

If you are going to go through the trouble of cloning a hard drive ( e.g.
imaging using dd ), you might want to consider moving the installation into
a virtual machine ( VM ) and having the image be on the 1TB drive.  VM's
are not a panacea for every use case, but they sure have some nice
features: isolation, snapshotting, reverting, suspending, multiple OSes
running at the same time, IaC, etc.

Regards,
- Robert


On Wed, Jan 31, 2024 at 4:50 PM Akkana Peck <akkana at shallowsky.com> wrote:

> Brian O'Keefe writes:
> >    Now what I'd like to do is clone my 250GB SSD to a 1TB SSD for the
> >    added space. I had already cloned my 250GB drive onto the 1TB but
> >    never upgraded it as I wanted to do. So I have a several months
> >    old cloned drive of 300GB partition and the remainder unformatted
> >    space. What I don't know is if I need to reformat the 1TB drive in
> >    any manner or just delete the 300GB partition and have a 1 TB,
> >    unformatted drive, as it came when new. Or, do I need to delete
> >    the partitions and either have all 1TB unformatted or format the
> >    1TB as ext4 or something?
>
> Some options:
>
> If you don't care about preserving what's on the drive now:
> format the whole 1TB as ext4 (or your favorite Linux filesystem if it's
> something else). I tend to use gparted because I'm nervous about typing
> fdisk commands, but fdisk or other tools are fine too if you prefer them.
> (This is the option I'd probably take.)
>
> If you want to preserve the data that's on the drive now, and it's a
> reasonable filesystem already:
> use gparted to resize the 300GB partition to take up the whole drive. This
> probably will be fairly fast, because it won't have to move any data, just
> enlarge the partition to use up the free space.
>
> If you want to preserve the 250GB clone exactly, and use the rest of the
> drive for other backups:
> use gparted to make a new partition taking up the free space on the disk
> and format it to ext4.
>
>         ...Akkana
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