Not specifically Archlinux, but I am using Archlinux on my laptop, so I thought I’ll ask here.

I am planing to replace my 1 TB M.2 SSD in my laptop with a 2 TB M.2 SSD, and I am wondering how to clone the whole 1 TB SSD and restore it onto the 2 TB M.2 SSD.

I have read about people using $dd for that, but I never did that. Can anybody confirm that this is possible?

I am running two partitions, one boot and the other one is a crypt device with btrfs + subvolumes inside.

Is there anything I have to consider, before doing this?

Thank you for your time.

  • SayCyberOnceMoreEnglish
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    1 year ago

    +1 Clonezilla all the way…

    dd is fine if you want an exact bit-by-bit duplication of all the bits on the drive, but, that’s probably overkill.

    Clonezilla (or, more accurately, the tools it runs) will only copy the useful stuff, boot sectors, partitions, files, etc… faster.