On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 09:42:13PM +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 18/11/2019 à 20:44, sashab a écrit : > > > > fist of all: A fresh install will be much less pain ;) > > But so much less fun. > > > Moving '/' to new device: > > You'll have to boot a "live system" from a CD, > > to copy your rootfs. > > No, you don't. You can do it from the installed system. > > > It would be better to create a new fs on /dev/nvme0p? > > and rsync all files. > > Better than what ? Cloning the raw partition then extending the filesystem ? > Why ? > > > If you have no separate boot partition > > Actually I am failing to understand whether the small boot drive will be the > current SSD or a new empty drive. > It's an old/small/emptied drive.
> > However, you'll need to > > dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc > > (or however the package's name is on xubuntu) > > so that future updates of grub get installed on the right drive. > > Good catch. Actually if you are familiar with using chroot you could even do > this after chrooting to the new root filesystem instead of running > grub-install and grub-mkconfig (or update-grub) as it will also perform both > operations. > -- Chris Green
