Foxclone questions related to cloning from a smaller to a bigger SSD.

[Ralf Mardorf]

Hi,

just copy a live *buntu ISO to one of you USB sticks.

Boot into the live *buntu, open a terminal emulation.

In Xubuntu you can use the shortcut Ctrl + Alt + T to get a terminal
emulation.

Partition the new SSD. You can use gparted to do so.

Mount the partitions of the two SSDs, then run

  $ sudo -i
  # cp -Tai /mount/point/old_SSD/partition_x /mount/point/new_SSD/partition_x; echo $?

to copy the content of a partition from the old to the new SSD. If the
exit status, IOW if "echo $?" returns "0" everything is good, even if
you got warnings about "special files", "sockets" or something else like
this.

When the copy is done you need to install the bootloader on the new SSD
or continue using the old bootloader on the old SSD and just update it's
configuration to take account of the copied install on the new SSD..

If you want to create an archive, then instead of running cp, run

  $ sudo -i
  # tar --xattrs -czf /mount/point/old_SSD/partition_x /mount/point/where_you_want_it/partition_x; echo $?

After that you need to check the integrity, even if the exit status is
0, you can't trust that the archive can be opened. Open/list the
archive, if the exit status was 0 and you can open/list the archive,
everything is good, even if you got warnings about "special files",
"sockets" or something else like this.

Regards,
Ralf