Re: Move bookworm system from SSD to NVME

On 04/08/2024 13:13, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

On 04/08/2024 00:30, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:

I've used the "conv=fsync" option to dd so that sync is done
automatically. Since the man page is rather vague about it, I did
a web search to double check that I wasn't imagining things and

 Apropos of not too much, I finally got around to copying my old 120GB Pi boot disk to an image file, and splatting that back onto a 2TB SSD that now has according to a GUI based disk editor shitloads of 'unused' space.
 (The reason I didnt do it directly was on account of a lack of functional and accessible USB slots in the computer I used.)
 All looks ok, with a bootfs and a rootfs partition on it,  but I haven't actually booted it yet.
 I didn't sync it, I went to the supermarket instead, and left it running, and then left it running on the second transfer while I had the evening meal.
 It appears to be OK
 More later... I overslept badly and it may be Monday before more gets done.
 

Tried to reboot the thing and it failed, although it managed to get as far as system maintenance mode.
Using that mode I then removed all the disks no longer attached, from fstab, and its now at a normal login prompt!
Next step was to partition the spare space and reattach the second drive
So dd et al work perfectly as far as I can tell. when applied to the raw disk
I don't know why it barfed on having disks mentioned in fstab that didn't exist (yet) but it is another thing to be aware of when migrating a system
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