For /, /home, ... it's simple copy. Since you're using external USB,
don't use "dd". "cp -a" should be good enough. Or, "tar -cf -".
Never used "cpio".
For /boot, it's different can of worm. You can copy over the content,
but you have to update /boot/efi/EFI/DistroX/, so that your motherboard
"BIOS" knows about it. I'd recommend, install your distro on the new
SSD using UEFI. Then, update files for your old kernel. That way, the
structure is created for you.
Personally, I don't like UEFI. If you change motherboard, you can't
boot. Personal experience!
On 11/24/21 11:32 AM, James Knott via talk wrote:
I've bought a 1 TB SSD drive to replace the 750 GB drive in my
ThinkPad. I was considering using the opportunity to change to UEFI.
I'll be mounting the old drive in an external case so that I can copy
over the partitions, one of them NTFS. Anything I should worry about in
converting to UEFI? Any suggestions?
tnx jk
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