[Solved]Could a whole disk be added into a partition, another PC? [Solved]

[keos]

We post together, please read the EDIT, I've already ordered it ...

[DukeComposed]

If you are talking about dual or multi booting, 16 GB of RAM is enough to run every OS

He's not talking about RAM.

[MadMax]

Well, it appeared that way until he posted his QSI He even referred to it as "memory"....

But to wrap this up - yes, you will be able to copy your old system to the new 120 GB SSD. Just replace it, boot from a live system and dd the usb stick to the new drive. It will leave about 95 GB unpartitioned which then will be available for installing additional OS' or to increase the size of the small 15 GB partition you're currently using.

It should look something like that in gparted:

|---|-----------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|

[keos]

@madmax,

Just replace it, boot from a live system and dd the usb stick to the new drive.

Ok, I think I understand, anyway, I still haven't received the device ... if I have any difficulties I will continue here with this thread...

-- if everything goes well I will mark it as solved by then.

Thanks!

[Kermit the Frog]

It is an alternative to the QSI, it is on antix.

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inxi -fxxxrza

is the full QSI command that gets executed.

It's -F ( -f has a different function):

-f , --flags
Show all CPU flags used, not just the short list. Not shown with -F in order to avoid spamming. ARM CPUs: show features items.

-F , --full
Show Full output for inxi. Includes all Upper Case line letters (except -J and -W) plus --swap, -s and -n. Does not show extra verbose options such as -d -f -i -J -l -m -o -p -r -t -u -x unless you use those arguments in the command, e.g.: inxi -Frmxx

[Eadwine Rose]

Oh yeah. Big f.

Anyway, semantics now, and moot.

[Kermit the Frog]

In a nutshell:

For the system: MX Snapshot. Create an iso of the running system , boot with, then install on SSD. Can use Custom Install method and create some other (data etc.) partitions if you like.

Or:

On GParted "copy-paste" the partitions one by one. The SSD needs to be "unallocated space". Copy the partition, Change device (to ssd) then paste, Apply. That's it.

[Kermit the Frog]

...semantics now, and moot.

Yes, that was just for future readers.

[keos]

Ok, I already did the replacement of that part, but the installed system just disappeared, now only the new memory appears in Gparted, I think it's like 112GB.

Then I partition the disk...

It seems to me that I should insert a live-USB + the recovered-USB system in another port and apply:

dd if=/dev/sdX of=/dev/sdY

Where X is the recovered system and Y the partition where it will 'go in'

Is this correct...?

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This is what I did, I want MX on partition # 5




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demo@mx1:~
$ lsblk -f
NAME  FSTYPE FSVER LABEL     UUID                                 FSAVAIL FSUSE% MOUNTPOINTS
loop0 squash 4.0                                                        0   100% /live/linux
sda                                                                              
├─sda1
│     vfat   FAT32           A5C7-2839                                           
├─sda2
│     swap   1               fd8f3e7b-9875-4c6b-8588-eb9ce5695fb2                [SWAP]
├─sda3
│     ext4   1.0             ba27cd4e-19c8-46c4-81e9-43c115f71a25                
├─sda4
│     ext4   1.0             7b76b635-0024-4c33-9691-47d315cff798                
└─sda5
      ext4   1.0             786e985a-1e0e-45c4-b288-79c66f5df592                
sdb   iso966 Jolie MX-Live   2024-01-21-17-47-54-00                     0   100% /live/boot-dev
├─sdb1
│     iso966 Jolie MX-Live   2024-01-21-17-47-54-00                              
└─sdb2
      vfat   FAT16 EFI-LIVE  5F46-8E64                                           
sdc                                                                              
├─sdc1
│     vfat   FAT32 EFI-SYSTEM
│                            1EBC-E74C                                           
└─sdc2
      ext4   1.0   rootMX23  af9f5cb8-f533-407d-8ab7-b303fcc9a93f    3.1G    73% /media/demo/rootMX23
demo@mx1:~
$

[Eadwine Rose]

You really need to differentiate between the term memory (which is RAM and does NOT show in gparted) and storage space (which is a hard drive that shows up in gparted).