I am currently booting off an SSD drive that boots both Linux (Ubuntu 20.04) and Windows. The partition scheme is shown here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zED6cbDncGz-fd1KF2bMjYEf5v3VWSOn/view?usp=s... <https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zED6cbDncGz-fd1KF2bMjYEf5v3VWSOn/view?usp=sharing> I want to get a larger SSD and replace it. Can I just clone this drive to a larger one using Clonezilla? My thought is to put Clonezilla on a USB drive and then clone the current NVMe to another USB key. Then remove current SSD and replace with a larger one. Boot back into Clonezilla and clone what is on the second USB key to the new SSD in the laptop. Then reboot and voila. Is it that straightforward? I guess another option is to get a NVMe to USB adapter and clone directly to that? Is that a better solution? I've never used Clonezilla before so in unfamiliar waters here. I also have a large HDD in the machine so maybe could copy the current SDD to that as well? Feeling a little lost as to best way to move forward. Thanks for any tips. Jim
On Mon, Nov 22, 2021 at 12:33:13PM -0500, Jim Ruxton via talk wrote:
I am currently booting off an SSD drive that boots both Linux (Ubuntu 20.04) and Windows. The partition scheme is shown here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zED6cbDncGz-fd1KF2bMjYEf5v3VWSOn/view?usp=s... <https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zED6cbDncGz-fd1KF2bMjYEf5v3VWSOn/view?usp=sharing>
I want to get a larger SSD and replace it. Can I just clone this drive to a larger one using Clonezilla? My thought is to put Clonezilla on a USB drive and then clone the current NVMe to another USB key. Then remove current SSD and replace with a larger one. Boot back into Clonezilla and clone what is on the second USB key to the new SSD in the laptop. Then reboot and voila. Is it that straightforward? I guess another option is to get a NVMe to USB adapter and clone directly to that? Is that a better solution? I've never used Clonezilla before so in unfamiliar waters here. I also have a large HDD in the machine so maybe could copy the current SDD to that as well? Feeling a little lost as to best way to move forward. Thanks for any tips.
That sounds good to me. Pretty sure that's what I have done before. -- Len Sorensen
I am currently booting off an SSD drive that boots both Linux (Ubuntu 20.04) and Windows. The partition scheme is shown here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zED6cbDncGz-fd1KF2bMjYEf5v3VWSOn/view?usp=s... <https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zED6cbDncGz-fd1KF2bMjYEf5v3VWSOn/view?usp=sharing>
I want to get a larger SSD and replace it. Can I just clone this drive to a larger one using Clonezilla? My thought is to put Clonezilla on a USB drive and then clone the current NVMe to another USB key. Then remove current SSD and replace with a larger one. Boot back into Clonezilla and clone what is on the second USB key to the new SSD in the laptop. Then reboot and voila. Is it that straightforward? I guess another option is to get a NVMe to USB adapter and clone directly to that? Is that a better solution? I've never used Clonezilla before so in unfamiliar waters here. I also have a large HDD in the machine so maybe could copy the current SDD to that as well? Feeling a little lost as to best way to move forward. Thanks for any tips. That sounds good to me. Pretty sure that's what I have done before.
Thanks Lennart, so just to be clear did you clone the old drive to a USB key? Jim
According to https://clonezilla.org, this should be fine. It'd be fine to put your preferred version of clonezilla on a USB stick and have only the two drives in question connected. I'd recommend backing up the large drive you plan on cloning to and test it. have fun, Daniel Villarreal https://www.youcanlinux.org On Mon, 22 Nov 2021 at 12:33, Jim Ruxton via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
I am currently booting off an SSD drive that boots both Linux (Ubuntu 20.04) and Windows. The partition scheme is shown here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zED6cbDncGz-fd1KF2bMjYEf5v3VWSOn/view?usp=s... < https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zED6cbDncGz-fd1KF2bMjYEf5v3VWSOn/view?usp=s...
I want to get a larger SSD and replace it. Can I just clone this drive to a larger one using Clonezilla? ... I've never used Clonezilla before .... I also have a large HDD in the machine ... Jim
I got a 1TB SSD to replace the 128 GB drive. My plan now is to put the new SSD in a USB carrier then use Clonezilla on a USB drive to clone the old drive to the new one. Then I can remove the old SSD and replace it with the newly cloned one.Hopefully all goes smoothly. Jim On Tue., Nov. 23, 2021, 5:24 p.m. Daniel Villarreal, <youcanlinux@gmail.com> wrote:
According to https://clonezilla.org, this should be fine. It'd be fine to put your preferred version of clonezilla on a USB stick and have only the two drives in question connected. I'd recommend backing up the large drive you plan on cloning to and test it.
have fun, Daniel Villarreal https://www.youcanlinux.org
On Mon, 22 Nov 2021 at 12:33, Jim Ruxton via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
I am currently booting off an SSD drive that boots both Linux (Ubuntu 20.04) and Windows. The partition scheme is shown here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zED6cbDncGz-fd1KF2bMjYEf5v3VWSOn/view?usp=s... < https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zED6cbDncGz-fd1KF2bMjYEf5v3VWSOn/view?usp=s...
I want to get a larger SSD and replace it. Can I just clone this drive to a larger one using Clonezilla? ... I've never used Clonezilla before .... I also have a large HDD in the machine ... Jim
Might go a lot quicker if you just plug both the ssd drives directly to the motherboard. On Tue, 23 Nov 2021 at 22:43, Jim Ruxton via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
I got a 1TB SSD to replace the 128 GB drive. My plan now is to put the new SSD in a USB carrier then use Clonezilla on a USB drive to clone the old drive to the new one. ... Jim
On Tue., Nov. 23, 2021, 5:24 p.m. Daniel Villarreal, < youcanlinux@gmail.com> wrote:
According to https://clonezilla.org, this should be fine. It'd be fine to put your preferred version of clonezilla on a USB stick and have only the two drives in question connected. I'd recommend backing up the large drive you plan on cloning to and test it.
have fun, Daniel Villarreal https://www.youcanlinux.org
On Mon, 22 Nov 2021 at 12:33, Jim Ruxton via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
I am currently booting off an SSD drive that boots both Linux (Ubuntu 20.04) and Windows. The partition scheme is shown here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zED6cbDncGz-fd1KF2bMjYEf5v3VWSOn/view?usp=s... < https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zED6cbDncGz-fd1KF2bMjYEf5v3VWSOn/view?usp=s...
I want to get a larger SSD and replace it. Can I just clone this drive to a larger one using Clonezilla? ... I've never used Clonezilla before .... I also have a large HDD in the machine ... Jim
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True . My laptop only has one slot otherwise I would just put them both on the motherboard. Jim On Wed., Nov. 24, 2021, 8:50 a.m. Lennart Sorensen via talk, < talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
Might go a lot quicker if you just plug both the ssd drives directly to
On Wed, Nov 24, 2021 at 03:59:34AM +0000, Daniel Villarreal via talk wrote: the
motherboard.
Not all boards have slots for two NVMe drives though.
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