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Hello,

I got a tripple boot(Manjaro (main, manages grub), Windows, Ubuntu) on a 256 GB SSD. And there is one problem with it: The space is very limited on that drive. So therefore I was considering to buy a 1TB SSD and move the whole system there.

Since my time is limited, I wanted to ask if the following movementscheme works:

  1. Boot from a Livesystem
  2. use dd to clone the 256GB SSD to the 1TB SSD. (dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb)
  3. use Gparted to increse the partition-size and move partitions.
  4. Boot from those systems and have fun

Thank you for your answer in advance.

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AFAIK this should work, just make sure to also resize the filesystems afterwards, not just the partition.

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If you clone your partitions, I guess there will be anyway new UUIDs. So into the Live environment, don’t forget to check in /etc/fstab and to modify accordingly.

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I would rather create a new GPT table on the new disk and copy the partitions. Then you can resize the partitions acc. to your needs as well. Afterwards, correct the /etc/fstab as explained by @Falav and potentially entries in /etc/default/grub, boot into your system via a live ISO and manjaro-chroot, restore the boot loader and then run

sudo update-grub

with prior os-prober enabled in your /etc/default/grub by

GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=false

to generate the entries for the other OS in grub’s boot menu. It could be required to re-assign the ESP in your firmware.

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I moved a multiboot Linux/Windows install to new pc using:

CloneZilla that restores the UUID of your filesystems ( very important in my experience )

As precaution save the given UUID in terminal:
blkid>>given_uuids

Restore them as needed in terminal:
tune2fs -U uuid device

I don’t know but i think its not only fstab where UUID are saved?! Perhaps systemd also? To avoid all this take CloneZilla. Ok its hard to handle. To accept proposed options is a good choice.

Good luck :slight_smile:

https://clonezilla.org/

What i didn’t understand: Windows 10 feeled ok on totally new hardware and didn’t want to be activated again … :slight_smile:

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Thank you all very much for your input.

Without it, I will probably have failed. I will try it. :smiley:

And in case everything goes wrong, I would still have a backup.

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Hello everybody, just a short update:

I’ve done it, like @JohnML suggested with CloneZilla, which did the job quite well for me. :smiley:

My problems where (which I was able to solve):

  1. Getting an error on fsync with the code Number 5. Solution was: Let CloneZilla interactive check the partitions
  2. CloneZilla didn’t find the new SSD. The problem was, I didn’t put it in correctly.
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Nice to hear :slight_smile:

In first place i had trouble using CloneZilla … not really intuitive the menues … its a great tool if you learnt how to use it!

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Pay attention: restored CloneZilla images lead to double UUID and grub will boot the first UUID it finds!

Unplug the “old” device before you start after CloneZilla restore.

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