Swapping out an old 2TB pcie 3 drive for a newer 2TB pcie 4 drive.
I was leaning towards using dd, after shrinking the partition on the source drive so it doesn’t also ‘copy’ all the empty space.
Have you done this recently? What was your method?
Or is there a CachyOS/kde tool I may be unaware of?

  • treadful@lemmy.zipEnglish
    19·
    10 hours ago

    For my personal workstation, it’s such a rare thing I always use that an excuse to start from scratch again. If it’s like a business system or something, usually build a new system and migrate data and services to it gradually.

    I so rarely do in-place upgrades of system drives unless it’s a recovery or something.

    • njordomir@lemmy.world
      2·
      7 hours ago

      True. Starting with a fresh install can be more of a performance boost than buying a new drive. Add them together though and your computer is going to feel like future tech. I’d also just reinstall, unless its a server or a pain to rebuild.

    • Carl@anarchist.nexusEnglish
      4·
      9 hours ago

      Pretty much this. I’d copy anything I want to keep onto a temporary drive, (cloud storage, a USB drive, second SSD, etc), then use it as an excuse to refresh my install. Then just copy everything from that temporary storage after my new install is finished.