Installed to wrong drive. Can I fix/clone this easily to correct drive?

[SkOrPn]

Well hello again,

A few days ago I decided to unretire my 5th gen Intel NUC5i7RYH and install MX-23. I put in a Samsung 970 Evo Plus NVMe SSD (250GB) to install MX to, and also installed a 1TB 870 EVO SATA SSD for files, etc. However after a few days of setting it up with all of the pertinent software and settings I discovered that I installed the system to the SATA drive. How in the heck I missed this I do not quite understand. However, I guess I could reinstall it and then format the sata drive. But I am curious if there is a faster better way? Like a perfect snapshot clone or something I could quickly use instead? Granted the sata drive is 1TB and the target drive is only 256gb. I have used Clonezilla many times, but isn't there something else that won't discriminate because of disk size? Something like MX Snapshot or something? Thanks for any tips etc.

[Charlie Brown]

Yep, MX Snapshot .. the free space won't be included in the iso, so it won't be a problem.

[SkOrPn]

Ok good then. Will the tool create a bootable iso for re-installation of mx with everything intact as it is now? Or something else? And if so, should I remove the sata drive just in case?

[MXRobo]

Yes, choose the Personal option, and MX-Snapshsot could be named MX-ISO-Maker - treat is as an iso because it is an iso.

[SkOrPn]

OK got it installed to the proper ssd. However after erasing and formatting the storage drive I can't get linux to use it. I can't make any Folders or anything. I can mount and unmount, but thats about the extent of it. I have tried multiple times both using gparted and the terminal. I partitioned as gpt and formatted as ext4. But thunar refuses to do anything with it, even after reboots. I am confused now.

[towwire]

You have a permission problem. If you right click and Properties/Permissions tab you will see that the owner is root.

If you want to change the permissions on your data files, you can do this:

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sudo chown -R $USER:$USER /top-level/path/to/files 

[MXRobo]

Yes, as towwire stated, also:
viewtopic.php?p=709022&sid=a13b134f1db8 ... d7#p709022

[figueroa]

If you have any mountpoints in /mnt/, they will not be included when you install the snapshot. Also, if you've changed the /etc/fstab, those changes may also not be included.

[SkOrPn]

Ok the link MXRobo supplied did the trick.

I used

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sudo chown -R rod:rod /media/rod/nameofpartition/.

And I was immediately given access to create and use folders. I sure hope that was correct. I was ready to pull the drive out of the machine. Thanks to everyone who replied.

[Charlie Brown]

I sure hope that was correct.

Yep, it's ok.

The reason was: GParted gives the ownership to root by default.