Re: transferring boot

[Detlef Vollmann <dv@vollmann.ch>]

On 7/31/25 21:27, Nicolas George wrote:
> Detlef Vollmann (HE12025-07-31):
> > I would go for the first option (dd)
>
> That will not work. At least not with a lot lot more details. That would
> work to copy the whole system to a larger drive. For this setup it is a
> terrible idea.

What are you talking about?
It's just copying the root partition from the HD to the SSD.
It will also copy the UUID of the partition, so this needs to be fixed.
The size of the filesystem will be smaller than the partition,
which can be changed afterwards.
And as Eben wrote, it's probably a good idea to copy the /boot partition
as well (which requires to create the target partition first)
and then run grub-install, as Andy suggested.

What would go wrong?

  Detlef