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submitted 16 hours ago by Nednarb44@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

I'm looking to upgrade drives on two of my machines. My server running ubuntu has a 3.5" and will be getting a larger capacity HDD, while my personal computer running endeavor OS will be going from a 2.5" ssd to an nvme drive. (Not sure if it helps giving the drive types, but can't hurt).

I'm fine with a clean install and reinstalling everything, but to save some time I'd of course like to minimize the effort that goes into it (importing settings etc). Any tips/tricks for either? Thanks in advance

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[-] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 0 points 11 hours ago

If you're using LVM, ZFS, or Btrfs then you can use their features and tooling to migrate data from one disk to the other, assuming you're able to connect both at the same time.

I've done this online with btrfs several times now and it's quite painless, admittedly only for self hosted stuff.

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