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How to clone / move entire Fedora installation onto larger disk with minimal changes to the system?

Scenario I have an SSD in my computer (250GiB), with both /boot and ///home partitions on it. I'd like to move that into a new M.2 NVME drive which is much larger (1TiB). The distro I'm using is ...
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Is this a safe way to migrate my data to a new computer?

I recently bought a new laptop and I would like to migrate to it with as little hassle as possible. I don't want to do a fresh install since I have made various tweaks to my current setup for things ...
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Moving Linux OS and all the connected HDDs/SSDs to a new computer (same architecture x64, different socket)

I need to migrate my entire system (Ubuntu OS and all the connected HDDs/SSDs) to a new PC. The old one has an Intel CPU and the new one an AMD Ryzen socket AM4, so of course all the hardware will be ...
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How to clone Ubuntu 18.04 LTS from HDD to SSD?

I have Ubuntu 18.04 LTS installed on a 1000 GB HDD /dev/sda (93% free space) on my laptop: /dev/sda1 -> 512M - vfat - EFI System Partition /dev/sda2 -> 732M - ext4 - Linux ...
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Moving Linux install to a new computer

I know that it can, in some circumstances, be difficult to move a Windows installation from one computer to another (physically move the hard drive), but how does that work on Linux? Aren't most of ...
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