Move install to another HDD

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So I am having a great time on Leap 42.1; I’ve got chrome, libreoffice, and no one is trying to sell me office or rolling things that eat my internet bandwidth, and best of all steam games work great.

I installed it on an old spinny HDD, and now I want to order a new SSD to switch it to. I know in days of old I could cp the entire install, then copy on the new one. However I am sure this wouldn’t work; if nothing else, it would need new drivers for the SSD. Since I want the enhanced performance, how can I move the install to a new hard drive? I hate to do a whole new install.

Thanks

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No new drivers needed :wink:

IMO best to simple install fresh on the new drive and copy the data from the old to the new /home. Yes you will have to reinstall any applications but that is easy enough. All your personal data and settings are in /home

Simple copying can be confusing to new users there are tricks involved depending on the exact method use :open_mouth:

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Thanks for the response.

I am more concerned over the overnight download time for some games I installed. Perhaps I can just move it from one HD to the next, but I am unsure exactly where steam places its data files. I guess I can google that later.

I mostly was talking about programs to run a solid state HD properly; my installation is from auto detection of my hardware, and in the past if I did a major hardware upgrade I couldn’t figure out how to get opensuse to recognize it.

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Games for steam are normal stored in /home I think. But in any case just backup the area where they are stored if not on home.

A drive is a drive is a drive. There are no special drivers for SSD. There may be some optimization settings you can modify for SSD but which depends on the file system used.

Just doing a copy of the OS (root) partition can lead to problems if you do not fully understand depending on the method of the copy. For one thing the UUID of partitions can change and the is used in the mounting (see /etc/fstab)

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Yeah, I remember very annoying UUID things when I tried to moving things around in Gentoo.

thanks again.