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

[James Toebes via TriLUG]

Forgot the links

https://clonezilla.org/
https://gparted.org/



On Sat, 2021-10-30 at 12:25 -0400, James Toebes via TriLUG wrote:
> It might be easier to used clonezilla to copy drive to drive.
>  Clonezilla will check for extended info.  Then GParted to resize
> afterwards. 
> On Sat, 2021-10-30 at 11:43 -0400, Pete Soper via TriLUG 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,
> > 
> > Pete
> >