Migrating to second hard drive

Glen H

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Mar 1, 2018, 10:37:26 PM3/1/18

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Hi,

My primary SSD is out of space and I have a second hard drive. I've formatted it but not sure how to migrate my cubes to it. Does anyone have any instructions for doing this?

Ideally, I'd boot from my new hard drive and use original one to store my backups of my qubes.

Thanks,

Glen

Glen H

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Mar 1, 2018, 10:38:08 PM3/1/18

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I forgot to mention that I'm on Qubes 4 and I'm pretty knowledgeable about Linux.

Glen

awokd

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Mar 1, 2018, 11:10:31 PM3/1/18

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Make sure you do a backup first. You might be able to "cheat" and DD the
small drive to the larger then expand, as long as you're comfortable with
LVM. On the other hand, pulling the small drive, installing Qubes on the
new, and restoring from backup wouldn't take that much longer.

Unman

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Mar 2, 2018, 4:26:03 AM3/2/18

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If you cheat you'll have to fix grub if you're using it. I suspect it'll
be cleaner to take the second option and install 4.0 on the new drive
when it comes out.

ThierryIT

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Mar 3, 2018, 3:18:47 AM3/3/18

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What about doing a backup of all your VMs / template first.
Doing a fresh install of Qubes on your new HDD.
Restored your backuped VMs

?

Glen H

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Mar 4, 2018, 7:11:45 PM3/4/18

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I ended up doing a fresh install as I didn't have much in my Qubes anyways and I didn't have space for a backup.

Glen

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