[kwlug-disc] Cloning smaller to larger SSDs (Clonezilla/Gparted)

[L.D. Paniak]

I usually take the lazy/easy/trouble-free route with things like this:
dd the old drive onto the new drive

The new drive will boot and run without issue.
Then use (g)parted to build one/many partitions on the unused drive space.
Use a new partition as your /home.

For bonus points, partition the unused drive space and feed it to ZFS to
build a pool.
Build and mount as many filesystems there are you want - with data
protection, snapshots...

Downside it that the space of the original /home is "lost". 
There are plenty of ways to make it useful...


On 11/4/18 08:29, Charles M wrote:
> The short version:
>
> I'm planning on upgrading the 120GB OS SSD in our KODI server to a
> 500GB+ SSD. Can I simply using Clonezilla and Gparted to clone and
> resize the data or will I have to do some grub magic? (I assume I will
> because of the UUID system)
>
> The long version:
>
> I want to upgrade the 120GB SSD in our KODI server to a 500GB+ SSD.
> 120GB was good when we were only scraping movie data, but now we've
> started using it for Steam and some of those Steam games take more
> than 60% of the current SSD. We don't want to move the /home folder to
> the spinning rust drive.
>
> One problem that prevents us from simply doing a fresh install of the
> latest Xubuntu and copying over is the fact that lirc is broken in
> 18.04. When I did the upgrade from 16.04 to 18.04 on our current box I
> held back the lirc package so our remotes would continue to work. I
> could reinstall 16.04 and do the same upgrade-hold-back process for
> 18.04.
>
> I don't really want to add the 500GB as a slave to the 120GB (keeping
> things simple).
>
> Has anyone cloned SSD to SSD or does everyone mostly backup and reinstall?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Charles


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