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Recently purchased a 1TB sabrent card to upgrade my deck's internal storage. I know I could flash a fresh SteamOS image, but since I have an M2 adapter, it would be great if I could just clone the old drive instead, allowing me to keep the games I've downloaded and other software I've installed.

Does anyone have any suggestions for tools or tips for doing this? Thanks in advance!

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[–] Honkinwaffles@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I did this on my upgrade from 256GB to 1TB!

Instead of using gparted though I booted Clonezilla off the Deck and cloned it that way, took about 45-60 minutes to clone the drive and I was up and going. Honestly would suggest anyone do it that way if possible.

Let me know if you've got some questions.

[–] local_taxi_fix@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I'm considering doing this but the one thing I'm not sure about is how to connect both drives at the same time. Did you use a USB dongle or something?

[–] doctorzeromd@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You should be able to have one drive plugged into the m.2 slot on the deck, and the other connected via an m.2 to USB adapter.

[–] Honkinwaffles@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah I have a USB-C dock that allowed me to hook up both at the same time

[–] cowleggies@reddthat.com 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Glad to know Clonezilla does work for the deck - it’s one of my favorite tools and what I use for full system images on all my computers.

[–] Honkinwaffles@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Its great, I had struggled trying to get everything working without it but afterwards took me 5 min to get setup and cloning. One of the strongest tools to have in your kit.

[–] minishoemaze 2 points 1 year ago

I saw a few generalized recommendations for Clonezilla, but I was unsure if it would work with Deck. That's great to know, thank you!

[–] lynny@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The easiest way would be to use gparted from a USB drive. It has an interface to do all this, as well as resize the cloned partition to fill the entire new drive.

[–] minishoemaze 2 points 1 year ago

I'll have to take a look at gparted too, thanks!

[–] DRx@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’ve done this twice now (mine and friends) and it’s was super easy took about 30ish min.

Put new drive in usb-c m.2 adapter

Verify your drive locations

Used this command:

sudo dd if=/dev/nvmeOn1 of=/dev/sda oflag=sync bs=128M status=progress

Restart deck and boot from usb-c to verify everything works

Swap out drives

[–] minishoemaze 1 points 1 year ago

Does this also size the partition to the size of the disk?

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