Boot confusion

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sun, 6 Jun 2021 21:30:26 -0500, Jack McGee wrote:
>I think I have succesfully moved /home to
>
>/dev/sdc1

I either restore from a backup by extracting an archive or I run

  sudo cp -ai source_root_directory/* target_mount_point/; echo $?

if echo $? returns 0, all is good, assuming the root directory doesn't
contain hidden items. If the root directory contains hidden items,
those need to be copied, too.

I don't even think of copying the bootloader, since when changing the
disk geometry, especially the starting point of an install, a
bootloader needs to be re-installed. So after copying an install, I
reinstall the bootloader, in my case it's syslinux. Btw. it makes no
difference, both of your SSDs should work. My machine is equipped with
two 223.57 GiB sizes, one 447.13 GiB sized and two 894.25 Gib sized
SSDs. Huger amounts of data are stored on external HDDs.

I just started reading the thread...