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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.

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

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?

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

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.

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:

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

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.

Ok the link MXRobo supplied did the trick.

I used 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.

SkOrPn wrote: Fri Sep 08, 2023 1:00 pmI sure hope that was correct.

Yep, it's ok.

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

Typed before I saw Charlie Brown's reply.
I'm not very good at this stuff so take all with a grain of salt, but did you use this for a partition or for a drive?
I ask for two reasons:
/media/rod/nameofpartition/
from your post,

and from my provided link which mentions both drive and partition in this quote:
which is especially useful for writes to the root of the drive/partition.

but does mentions only partition and not drive from there on.

I used the method in my provided link on a partition, not a drive.

So, I have not tried this on a drive.

But CB does know this stuff.