The old SSD is 250 GB. The new one is 1 TB. I could resize the Windows partition using gparted to leave more than enough room for the entire old drive.
Here is fstab from my current workstation. # /etc/fstab # Created by anaconda on Fri Oct 21 06:49:22 2016 # # Accessible filesystems, by reference, are maintained under '/dev/disk' # See man pages fstab(5), findfs(8), mount(8) and/or blkid(8) for more info # /dev/mapper/fedora-root / ext4 defaults 1 1 UUID=7ec64a92-3b6c-4554-9b10-f4e3665f25b7 /boot ext4 defaults 1 2 /dev/mapper/fedora-home /home ext4 defaults 1 2 /dev/mapper/fedora-swap swap swap defaults 0 0 How does one set up grub for dual boot after the fact, if you don't do a minimal install ? Or is that what you are suggesting ? FWIW, just looked up the price of Windows 10 Home... wow ! On Mon, Jan 6, 2020 at 1:50 PM Samuel Sieb <sam...@sieb.net> wrote: > On 1/6/20 10:35 AM, linux guy wrote: > > I'm about to purchase a new workstation computer because my current > > workstation is too slow. The new computer comes with Windows 10 > > installed on it. I rarely use Windows, but occasionally it comes in > > handy to troubleshoot something, so I'd like to leave it on the hard > drive. > > Is Windows booting via EFI? I would expect it is, but just checking. > Is your old Fedora computer booting with EFI? > > > Question: how do I transfer my current workstation installation to the > > new hard drive and retain Windows ? I don't want to start over > > building my workstation installation from a fresh install. > > How big is the old hard drive and how big is the new one? If you can > resize Windows to leave enough space, you could directly copy the > partitions from one drive to the other. Otherwise, you can create the > necessary partitions on the new drive and rsync (with the right flags) > the data from the old hard drive. Either way you will you need to > adjust the booting on the new system after. Check the fstab on the old > system. With the rsync method, if the fstab is using labels, then just > create the new partitions with the same labels. Otherwise, you will > need to adjust the copied fstab to use the new partition UUIDs. > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org >
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