Howdy All! I recently got a bitchin’ new SSD, a Samsung 990 EVO Plus 4TB and I am struggle bussing trying to make it my new boot drive on my computer while keeping all of my programs and settings and things just the way I like them. Specs are I7 13700K cpu and an RTX 4070 gpu plugged into an MSI MAG Z790 Tomahawk Wifi mobo all working harmoniously to run Opensuse Tumbleweed.

Things I have done so far:

  1. Googled that shit, didn’t find much that helped me unfortunately. Found some forum where a guy was trying to move over to an SSD from a HDD and then remove the HDD, whereas I just want to change the boot drive to SSD and continue using both drives in the same rig. Someone else in that thread recommended clonezilla but then further down I read something about UUIDs(?) being copied as well and being unable to use both drives in the same computer or it can cause issues and corrupt data. That scared me off that.

  2. Tried using the Yast Partitioner tool but the scary warning box it makes you click through and the general lack of any clue what I’m doing scared me off that.

  3. Decided to just fresh install Opensuse Tumbleweed onto SSD with usb and then mount the HDD so that I can just copy everything over that way. Or so I thought. First I ran into the issue of the /home located in HDD not being viewable by my user on the SSD, I guess. Fixed that by unmounting the drive and remounting it with the following appended to the end of the mount command ‘-o subvol=/’ , I got that from google as well. Now I’m able to view things in /home on HDD from the user on SSD and I’ve even copied some things over. However I’m unable to access the .snapshots folder in the root directory of HDD which I intended to copy over the latest snapshot and use it on the SSD install to bring all of my non /home stuff over.

So I’m kinda stuck in the middle of transferring over now. I have an inclination toward being lazy so I don’t really want to spend time installing all of the flatpaks and configuring the OS again if I don’t have to. Mostly because I’ve already had one false start with Linux and went ahead and started fresh so this would be the third time having to set everything up again from scratch. Any help or suggestions are greatly appreciated!

  • Marafon@sh.itjust.worksOP
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    6 hours ago

    Most recently I have used gparted to resize the root partition of my HDD (/dev/sda2) to be only a little larger than the amount of data I actually had on it. Taking it from ~7 TB to 1tb, mostly so that I wouldn’t have to copy “empty” space and also so that the partition would actually fit on my 4tb SSD (/dev/nvme0n1p2) Then I created 3 partitions on my SSD that matched the file structures on the HDD (fat=nvme0n1p1, btrfs=nvme0n1p2, linux-swap=nvme0n1p3).

    I then booted from a USB with clonezilla live on it and proceeded to clone partition to partition sda1>nvme0n1p1, sda2>nvme0n1p2, sda3>nvme0n1p3. The only way I could perform the clones without errors was to run in expert mode, selecting -icds (disables check for drive size), -k (can’t remember exactly what this one did, something about not copying partition header or title?) after cloning all partitions I unhooked the HDD inside the case and tried to boot. Hit the same grub screen and hitting e returned error: ../../grub-core/script/function.c119:can't find command 'e'.

    I think it’s booting from UEFI? But I’m not sure how to actually tell. I will check for those grub configs in the morning though. Your help is greatly appreciated!

    • Infernal_pizza@lemm.eeEnglish
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      3 hours ago

      Well that sounds promising! In that case I suspect it is just that the new partitions have different UUIDs so you probably just need to fix the fstab and regenerate the grub.cfg. Definitely check the UUIDs with sudo blkid and let me know if they are different. Also its probably worth checking the default Btrfs subvolume hasn’t changed. If you mount both drives and run sudo btrfs subvolume get-default /mountpath for both of them and check that the outputs match. If they don’t paste both outputs here and we should be able to fix it.

      You are almost certainly booting UEFI as your system looks to be quite new, probably the easiest way to check is to look at your fstab, on Opensuse I believe there should be a volume mounted to /boot/efi if you’re UEFI booting.

      Also just to help with the next part could you let me know which distro you’re using to boot from USB? From one of your other comments I think its Mint isn’t it?