[TriLUG] need to move to a larger disk with ext4 filesystem & boot sectors (Ubuntu Mate 20.04 on Ryzen)

[Jason Sullivan via TriLUG]

On Sat, Oct 30, 2021 at 11:57 AM Pete Soper via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org>
wrote:

> If I dd /dev/sda to /dev/sdb where sdb is larger than sda, should I be
> able to pull the old small drive out, boot the new big drive and somehow
> expand the partition with the ext4 filesystem in it out to the limit of
> the drive and  make the filesystem bigger that way?
>
> Outa space with the 100% blues,
>

The way I usually do something like this is with a Gparted live USB or CD.
It at least _feels_ a lot less risky.

https://gparted.org/

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Jason Sullivan
jason0x21 at gmail.com