I’m running Proxmox on a Lenovo ThinkCentre and I decided to swap the internal 256 GB 2,5" SSD for a 500 GB NVME.

I installed the new NVME alongside the old SSD, and formated it in ext4 with a single partition. I then proceeded to ‘dd /dev/sda /dev/nvme0n1’ and it went through without an error.

My impression was that it would clone all content from the old drive to the new, but it wouldn’t boot the new drive. I then logged in and set a boot flag via fstab a, but that only helped me boot but the system gets stuck at “waiting for root file system”.

Nothing is lost as the old drive still works fine when installed but how do I complete the swap correctly so I can go NVME-only?

Thank you!

  • @just_another_person
    14•2 months ago

    Yeah, that’ll work. Gparted should wipe the destination disk for you and set the boundaries and such. Should be super easy. You can find guides online as well.

    Clonezilla is also a super easy route.

    • BakkodaEnglish
      6•2 months ago

      X2 for clonezilla. I would usually go the path of the OP with one exception: this particular example. Clonezilla just works so perfectly for this effect scenario i can’t imagine wasting time using anything else.