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I bought a larger internal SSD for my laptop. How would I go about transferrring the data? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 3 weeks ago by Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/techsupport@lemmy.world

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As well as all my important stuff in /home, can I transfer over the operating system as well as everything in the root partition? What about the Windows Partition? Thanks in advance.

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[–] Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Would deleting it also delete the data on it? What is the point of automatically resizing them then?

[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 2 points 3 weeks ago

No it doesnt. Partitions need to start at the exact bit they start, but can end at something bigger.

Thats the trick.

Using gdisk you would print the table, make a photo, delete it, create them new and set the max for the storage partition (if you use BTRFS or LVM like a normal person) to the original start, but max available end

Then you print again and verify and write to apply the changes.

Then there is space but the partitions need to fill that up still, with btrfs on Fedora that would be sudo btrfs resize max / I think