The way I normally do this sort of thing previously is through KDE Partition Manager. I did this yest - it took forever but it was successful. That was me basically exporting the partition table of the source SSD, and importing it on the target SSD, then copying each source partition over to their corresponding target partition.
Now though, after finishing that, I used the Resize/Move feature on Partition Manager to grow the BTRFS partition from ~1TB to ~2TB by taking up the rest of the previously unallocated space (after the cloning was done). I don’t think I’ve done this before, with BTRFS drives, on KDE Partition Manager so I’m not sure if it’s even the right tool to do this but it’s been over 3 hours and the ‘progress dialog’ shows no details whatsoever and the progress percentage is still sitting at 0.
Should I cancel it, not knowing if it’s actually doing anything? Other than see that Btrfs is using 6% of my CPU in this live desktop session on the System Monitor.
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edit: saw in the terminal that the process it’s ‘stuck’ at is:
/usr/bin/btrfs check —repair /dev/nvme0n1p2
Discussions abt this —repair thing is riddled with people saying how that’s a really dangerous option etc. but it is the default by KDE and there wasn’t an option to disable it or anything like that. Irdk now if I shd just cancel this shit lol and try something else - either a different GUI like Gnome’s Gparted or through CLI directly. #kde #btrfs #linux #clonezilla #gnome #gparted #kde #btrfs #linux #clonezilla #gnome #gparted