Cloning ssd to m.2

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Hello.

I have manjaro installed on a sata ssd. I bought a larger m.2 ssd. Used gparted live to copy all partitions including the unallocated space in the beginning, as well as partition flags.

When booting the new disk, I get the following error:

error: no such partition.
Entering rescue mode…
grub rescue>

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on you M2

  1. all UUID are different
    see lsblk - fs
    then go in chroot and update /etc/fstab ,

return in chroot ( /boot or /boot/efi have to be ok )
2) unless you have copied /boot/ you need to re-install grub ( for UEFI or Bios )

recheck with gparted that flag boot ,esp ( uefi ) is ok

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Thank you for your response. Can you guide my in the right direction for chroot?

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~ lsblk -fs
NAME FSTYPE FSVER LABEL UUID                                 FSAVAIL FSUSE% MOUNTPOINT
loop0
     squash 4.0                                                    0   100% /var/lib/s
loop1
     squash 4.0                                                    0   100% /var/lib/s
loop2
     squash 4.0                                                    0   100% /var/lib/s
loop3
     squash 4.0                                                    0   100% /var/lib/s
loop4
     squash 4.0                                                    0   100% /var/lib/s
loop5
     squash 4.0                                                    0   100% /var/lib/s
loop6
     squash 4.0                                                    0   100% /var/lib/s
loop7
     squash 4.0                                                    0   100% /var/lib/s
loop8
     squash 4.0                                                    0   100% /var/lib/s
loop9
     squash 4.0                                                    0   100% /var/lib/s
loop10
     squash 4.0                                                    0   100% /var/lib/s
loop11
     squash 4.0                                                    0   100% /var/lib/s
loop12
     squash 4.0                                                    0   100% /var/lib/s
loop13
     squash 4.0                                                    0   100% /var/lib/s
loop14
     squash 4.0                                                    0   100% /var/lib/s
loop15
     squash 4.0                                                    0   100% /var/lib/s
loop16
     squash 4.0                                                    0   100% /var/lib/s
sda1 vfat   FAT32       5759-F02A                             299.1M     0% /boot/efi
└─sda
                                                                            
sda2 ext4   1.0         8ddaa5e3-9f1d-4233-a023-29ea2cad9e44    2.5G    94% /
└─sda
                                                                            
sdb1 ext4   1.0   SSD2  e4cc1477-ad3f-4b63-99f1-83e07b0d347e   80.4G    60% /mnt/ssd2
└─sdb
                                                                            
sdc1 iso966 Jolie MANJARO_GNOME_2102
│                       2021-04-19-09-09-21-00                     0   100% /run/media
└─sdc
     iso966 Jolie MANJARO_GNOME_2102
                        2021-04-19-09-09-21-00                              
sdc2 vfat   FAT12 MISO_EFI
│                       1DD5-8963                                           
└─sdc
     iso966 Jolie MANJARO_GNOME_2102
                        2021-04-19-09-09-21-00                              
nvme0n1p1
│    vfat   FAT32       5759-F02A                                           
└─nvme0n1
                                                                            
nvme0n1p2
│    ext4   1.0         8ddaa5e3-9f1d-4233-a023-29ea2cad9e44                
└─nvme0n1

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a device; this may
# be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices that works even if
# disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system>             <mount point>  <type>  <options>  <dump>  <pass>
UUID=5759-F02A                            /boot/efi      vfat    umask=0077 0 2
UUID=8ddaa5e3-9f1d-4233-a023-29ea2cad9e44 /              ext4    defaults,noati>
tmpfs                                     /tmp           tmpfs   defaults,noati>
/dev/disk/by-uuid/e4cc1477-ad3f-4b63-99f1-83e07b0d347e /mnt/ssd2 auto nosuid,no>

I think the cloned partition nvme0n1p1 has the same ID as the original partition on the sata ssd. Is this what is causing my issue?

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you have used a cloning tool ( like clonezilla )
1 - UUID are the same
2 - size partitions are the same ( lost space )
see df -Th and sudo fdisk -l
3 - only /boot/efi from sda3 is created on efibootmgr

in thes situation avoid to boot with both disks ,
because having same UUID , you dont know on which disk it will write

redo partition with gparted on nvme for zize , then copy with grsync
update UUID on nvme

sudo lsblk -fs
sudo manjaro chroot -a
nano /etc/fstab
exit ( quit chroot )

for next chroot with boot/efi to get mounted

sudo manjaro chroot -a

grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot/efi --bootloader-id=manjaro --recheck --verbose 
efibootmgr -v
update-grub
exit ( quit chroot )
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Issue is resolved. This worked for me: Cloning a Root Disk (Linux) · GitHub

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