Here’s what I did: I bought a new 512 GB SSD to replace my old 256 GB SSD, which was getting full. I put the new SSD in an NVME to USB adapter and then booted to a Fedora 38 live USB and cloned the old drive into the new drive using dd if=/dev/nvme0n1 of=/dev/sda. Then I used gparted to expand the LUKS partition to cover the rest of the disk. I did not have to unlock the encryption for this. After that, I powered off, removed the 256 GB SSD and installed the 512 GB SSD, then booted normally. I did not erase either of the SSDs.

Now when I get into Fedora 38, GNOME Disks reports that /dev/mapper/luks-5e5f911c... is a 511 GB ext4 partition with 80 GB free, and /dev/nvme0n1p3 is a 511 GB LUKSv2 partition, but when I run df, this is what I see:

nate@redgate:~$ df / -h
Filesystem                    Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/luks-5e5f911c...  233G  159G   63G  72% /

What did I do wrong?

  • @[email protected]OP
    1•1 year ago

    I wasn’t aware that rsync also copied system files. I’m curious to know why my method is unsafe. The only potential problem I see with what I did is mixing up if and of in dd.

    • @cybersandwich
      3•1 year ago

      Your method is safer imo as long as you get the dd command right. Because afterwards you’ll have two bootable copies of your system. If you mess up resizing the filesystem on the new drive, just dd again from the old one.

      Glad you figured it out.

      • DataproletEnglish
        1•1 year ago

        rsync also gives you two bootable copies of your system. Even better, it gives you a checksum based copy of your files including permissions.

    • DataproletEnglish
      1•1 year ago

      Safe/unsafe might be the wrong word, but rsync is resumable and also copies permissions for example. dd is more like the brute force method of data transfer.

      • @[email protected]OP
        1•1 year ago

        Pause and resume are nice but dd also gives you the permissions. It copies everything, byte for byte, hence why it’s a “low-level copy”