On Fri, Nov 6, 2020 at 9:21 AM Tom Horsley horsley1953@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, 6 Nov 2020 09:02:06 -0600 Richard Shaw wrote:
- Perform a clean install to it
You don't necessarily need a clean install. You can partition and format the new ssd then just rsync everything to it and use grub2-install to make it bootable and edit all the grub.conf, grub env files, fstabs, etc to change the UUID to the new UUID strings.
Don't know if you'd consider that a better option or not :-).
I kinda wanted to see how the installer setup the new btrfs subvolumes but guess I could do it manually :)
Also, I wanted to try going without dedicated swap (easy enough not to copy over) with swap on zram and standard OOM setup.
It is the way I always do installs by first installing to a virtual machine then using guestmount and rsync to get the install off the virtual machine and onto the partition I'm installing (then I use the configfile option from a stand alone grub partition which is the only one that actually boots).
Interesting method!
Thanks, Richard