I’m going to upgrade the micro SD card I use for emulation to one with more storage. What is the best way to close the micro SD card I have in my steam deck now to a new one so I can just plug in and go with all my games and save files?
I’m going to upgrade the micro SD card I use for emulation to one with more storage. What is the best way to close the micro SD card I have in my steam deck now to a new one so I can just plug in and go with all my games and save files?
Everyone is going to tell you to use dd. dd if=/dev/oldsdcard of=/dev/newsdcard
Personally, I have actually eaten an entire system by getting the wrong /dev names for the input file and the output file.
Gparted lets you copy whole partitions and resize them, and is graphical. I have yet to destroy my computer using gparted, but I’ve definitely done so with dd. (I’m also an idiot though, so…) Edit: gparted will also let you resize the new SD to the bigger partition size! However, it is actually possible to break your system in gparted too, so make sure you aren’t deleting partitions and stuff in there.
Yeah, but if you fuck up with dd, you get to install new linux and possibly try another distro.
Like a kid in a candy store.
Also, accidentally deleting all your valuable data without a working backup is a valuable lesson that I like to take the time to re-learn every few years.
It’s a rite of passage that every linux user should experience at least 3 times.
You don’t host all your personal projects in an off-prem git repo?
Though that’s 100% possible, Bringus actually destroyed his system drive on a laptop by being impatient while using gparted https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0T9SiUVvHk
No! You shouldn’t have told me that it could be done! Now, the next time I launch gparted, I’ll somehow manage to wipe everything! Not just my system, but, like, all my systems! If it can be broken on a computer, I’ll be the one to break it!