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Best way to swap drives?

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I’m looking to upgrade drives on two of my machines. My server running ubuntu has a 3.5" and will be getting a larger capacity HDD, while my personal computer running endeavor OS will be going from a 2.5" ssd to an nvme drive. (Not sure if it helps giving the drive types, but can’t hurt).

I’m fine with a clean install and reinstalling everything, but to save some time I’d of course like to minimize the effort that goes into it (importing settings etc). Any tips/tricks for either? Thanks in advance

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stuner@lemmy.world
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If you don’t want to reinstall the OS, you can probably use Clonezilla: https://clonezilla.org/show-live-doc-content.php?topic=clonezilla-live/doc/03_Disk_to_disk_clone

Maybe you need to update the drive ids for your bootloader (grub) afterwards, not sure about that.

Edit: Maybe the advanced “-g auto” option does that for you.

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syaochan@feddit.it
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Clonezilla can also update grub. Last time I upgraded system drive I had to do nothing.

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Nednarb44@lemmy.worldOP
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This is looking like a good option, thanks!

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mortimer@lemmy.world
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Try Foxclone. I prefer it over Clonezilla.

https://foxclone.org/

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richieadler@lemmy.myserv.one
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Why do you prefer it?

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