Clone Manjaro KDE from SATA to SSD

Hello @obaid,

if I had to do the tasks you want to do I would choose another path. I think it is easier to copy(backup) the files of your home-directory. Then move your Win11 to the HDD as planed. Check if your Win11 install works (if still needed). And then do a fresh install of Manjaro on the SSD which whould not take longer then an half hour.
After install, before reboot you should just copy back you saved home-directory to the new installation. And your are done.

cp -rp source target

For copy your can simply use the program ‘cp’ in a terminal. Just be sure to use the two switches ‘-r’ and ‘-p’ to copy also sub-directories and all rights and timestamps.

For backup it should look like:

 cp -rp ~/* /run/media/username/your-pen-drive/backup-home/

In this example ‘~/*’ is your current home-directory and ‘/run/media/username/your-pen-drive/backup-home/’ is the place where you want to store your backup. Be sure that the target filesystem is an linux filesystem like ‘ext4’, otherwise the file-permissions will not be stored correctly.

If you want to do it like planned with clonezilla I sadly cant help you, cause I have no expierience with that software but perhaps someone else.

Have a nice day. :slightly_smiling_face: