If I use Clonezilla to clone my current 256 SSD to a 512 SSD, will I need to enlarge openSUSE partitions after? The partitioning on openSUSE looks mighty complex & is handled automatically at install. If I am to enlarge manually, is this complex?
While it depends very much on your purpose (where do you need that extra space for, why did you buy it?), the result of storing the copy/ies on the new disk will depend on what you cloned. Did you clone the whole disk or the partitions?
When you cloned the whole disk, after restore you will see not much difference because you the have the old partition table (of the small disk) on the new disk.
When you cloned the partitions separate you are more flexible, but you first have to partition the new disk with care.
Of course, for any serious advice, people want to see your current partitioning
fdisk -l
and want to hear of your plans for the new space.
It is e.g. not a must t increase the partitions. You may want to increase some, you may want to create new partitions, you may want a combination. It is up to you.
For almost all cloning operations (and even dd),
No special configuration is needed, and will work.
In other words, no need to enlarge anything before or after anything… Just configure your partitions to whatever you want on the target disk, no other adjustments need to be made at any time.
The rule is that the target must always be equal to, or larger than the source… and the target can never be smaller than the source.
This is because cloning copies bits, not files. No partition size information is considered in the operation.
TSU
Good ho, all taken care of automagically. 256GB has not proved enough for dual booting. Thx.
Having seen countless BTRFS sub partitions created at install, I did not realise this is all managed automatically by OS. There are really only boot, swap, root & home. Cloning disk to disk gives a template to work with, delete & resize as see fit with GParted. Then clone root & home partition to partition making sure to recreate partition table proportionately. Golden.