I have a Dell Inspiration 15 5555 with Elementary OS Hera which has a base 1Tb HDD, but I wanted upgrade it and recently install a 120Gb SSD using a caddy replacing my DVD/optical drive. Now I want to move my only the OS from the HDD to the SSD but keeping my Documents on the HDD. How can I do it? All the information I can find on the web migrates all the data and my documents are much bigger than 120Gb plus those doesn't need so much read/write speed as the one the SSD offers. Already format the SSD using ext4 but I can't find how to move only the OS. If it's need I still have the OS bootable with Hera. Been using Elementary OS for 2 years so theoretically I should understand it but to be honest most of the time I have no idea what is going on so please help me.
2 Answers
Is it possible to move your documents off to another storage medium temporarily (backup drive or thumb drive), wipe them off your HDD then copy the contents of your now much-smaller HDD to your new SSD then copy your documents back over to your HDD?
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Would be kind of hard because I only have 1 USB with not enough space... but yes, indeed I could backup everything, format both disks and then boot, this time with the SSD but there must be a way to do it without reinstalling everything, right? After all it is already installed– Al0nsoNov 14, 2020 at 0:56
So do you mean that you want upgrading to an SSD, but you insist on keeping your current OS? I think you can try to clone your HDD to SSD. maybe this article is quite helpful
answered Nov 19, 2020 at 20:32
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