It is lvm2. Thank you for the recommendation! I’ll check it out though I think I’m going to stick to the CLI for this one. I kind of want to do it manually.
I do plan to work from a bootsble USB for all the dd work so that nothing is mounted/in use.
Thanks. I’ll stick with dd then. You are correct, I think. I plan to dd the whole disk. The plan is:
dd if=/dev/nvme0n1 of=/dev/sdb bs=4M status=progress oflag=sync
unless that’s the wrong idea. once the usb ssd is done I will definitely check the luks container on the ssd. Size and data availability.
I’ll take a look at pvmove.
I can’t have both installed. Plan is to dd the 128 nvme to a USB SSD I have, then dd the SSD to the 512 once it’s installed in the laptop. All the xloning will be done by booting a USB ISO so no drives are in active use while being cloned.
No joke! I plan to quadruple check before I hit enter.
That I didn’t know. Thank you!
The first clone (to the interim usb ssd) was a success! I’ll report back after installing the new nvme and cloning from the ssd to the nvme.