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Best way to transfer my installation to another drive? (self.linux)

submitted 1 year ago by Kaloi to c/[email protected]

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I bought a new ssd that is way faster and larger than my current one. What is the best way to transfer everything from my old drive to my new one. Currently running Fedora 38, fine with the command line. If nothing else I will just do a clean install on the new drive and copy over what I need from /home on the old drive.

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[–] elderflower 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

cp /dev/sdX /dev/sdY. Really, it's that simple, just replace sdX and sdY with the device files for the source and destination drives.

[–] myogg 1 points 1 year ago

I never knew cp could do this!