From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 03C5B15ACFB for ; Mon, 17 Apr 2023 09:40:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 26B43E0932; Mon, 17 Apr 2023 09:40:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.hosts.co.uk (smtp.hosts.co.uk [85.233.160.19]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2BBA1E0918 for ; Mon, 17 Apr 2023 09:40:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from host86-156-145-149.range86-156.btcentralplus.com ([86.156.145.149] helo=[192.168.1.99]) by smtp.hosts.co.uk with esmtpa (Exim) (envelope-from ) id 1poLLe-0002N4-EI for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 17 Apr 2023 10:40:34 +0100 Message-ID: <83843fb3-8768-4674-7a75-0bf8377c7664@youngman.org.uk> Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2023 10:40:33 +0100 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.10.0 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Finally got a SSD drive to put my OS on To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <12194979.O9o76ZdvQC@wstn> <19959f07-88a8-f2ee-1523-573f794c9282@iinet.net.au> <9fbad854-2f36-f261-b2f3-4850059f6d2a@gmail.com> <8662fe97-64dc-cbf4-ce49-737ea9b14d06@gmail.com> <28eb1e13-0278-8656-67b7-9d995520f9ce@gmail.com> Content-Language: en-GB From: Wols Lists In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Archives-Salt: 911a0a62-dec1-46cc-9b1f-380a02cd9933 X-Archives-Hash: d239c24f84a3a4299b1db37a53293b09 On 17/04/2023 02:14, Dale wrote: > My current install is over a decade old.  My /boot partition is about > 375MBs.  I should have made it larger but at the time, I booted CD/DVD > media when needed.  I didn't have USB sticks at the time.  This time, I > plan to make some changes.  If I put Knoppix and/or Gentoo LiveGUI in > /boot, it will be larger.  Much larger.  Mark's idea is best tho.  If I > can get Grub to work and boot it. If you dd your boot partition across, you can copy it into a larger partition on the new drive, and then just expand the filesystem. So changing partition sizes isn't a problem if you want to just copy your system drive onto a new disk. Cheers, Wol