On 2022-04-28 01:35, Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote:
1. My motherboard takes a single M.2 SSD for my one and only drive. I have a larger M.2 card that I'd like to replace it with, cloning my existing setup to the new drive [snip] Can anyone recommend a good tool for doing the disk clone?
I have just used dd run under Linux when I have cloned drives in the past. YMMV.
2. I want to have one partition for data that is visible regardless if I boot Linux or Windows.
You should have no problem with an NTFS partition as the common one. There is (or was) a utility to read ext* partitions from within Windows. IIRC, it was read only access but it did work. It was so long ago that I last did anything with it that I don't remember the name of the program. It might have been for ext2 only but I can't be sure.
3. I've never used snap or flatpack before. Others have told me to install as much native (ie, .deb packages) as possible, use flatpack when it's the only option and uninstall snap.
I've never used snap or flatpack. If you installed one of those formatted packages I don't know how you keep them up to date. I would use a PPA for something before I would think of snap or flatpack. I know a package I get due to a PPA will get updated as part of my computers normal update process. -- Cheers! Kevin. http://www.ve3syb.ca/ | "Nerds make the shiny things that https://www.patreon.com/KevinCozens | distract the mouth-breathers, and | that's why we're powerful" Owner of Elecraft K2 #2172 | #include <disclaimer/favourite> | --Chris Hardwick