Hi Terry, > I found I had a bit of time, so I've swapped the drive back and > KWallet is working again. I'll have another go in due course.
Good, so you're back to your old system that's 70% full, good enough except for running VMs, and no harm done? > Question. How would people recommend that I do this, in the absence of a > spare drive? I remember installing a new HD some years ago without any major > difficulties, but I can't remember exactly what I did. I think Hamish had it right if you're happy with your old system and don't want to start from a fresh install of Kubuntu from installation media. On the other hand, if you think a fresh install might have benefits then I'd do it from installation media and not by copying an existing 19.10 installation. Boot something like Clonezilla from a USB stick and have it copy all the used old disk, partition table and all partitions, to the new disk. Given the caddy is probably a bottleneck, I'd put the old disk in there as reading is normally quicker than writing and the caddy may have less impact. Also, caddy interfaces can be flaky compared to having the drive installed properly. https://www.clonezilla.org/show-live-doc-content.php?topic=clonezilla-live/doc/03_Disk_to_disk_clone Afterwards, if the new disk is working well, boot from a USB stick again and use something like gparted to adjust the partitions to use more of the disk if you want, e.g. expand /home assuming that's the last partition before all the free space. Or you can combine partition resizing with the initial copying in Clonezilla if you're confident. https://clonezilla.org/clonezilla-live/doc/03_Disk_to_disk_clone/advanced/05-advanced-param.php If you want to juggle partitions around on the new disk then it may be better to do it all with gparted from a live USB stick, creating the partition table, then copying/resizing each partition in turn to create your preferred layout and sizes. -- Cheers, Ralph. -- Next meeting: BEC, Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2019-12-03 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk
