[kwlug-disc] Cloning smaller to larger SSDs (Clonezilla/Gparted)

[Charles M]

The short version:

I'm planning on upgrading the 120GB OS SSD in our KODI server to a
500GB+ SSD. Can I simply using Clonezilla and Gparted to clone and
resize the data or will I have to do some grub magic? (I assume I will
because of the UUID system)

The long version:

I want to upgrade the 120GB SSD in our KODI server to a 500GB+ SSD.
120GB was good when we were only scraping movie data, but now we've
started using it for Steam and some of those Steam games take more
than 60% of the current SSD. We don't want to move the /home folder to
the spinning rust drive.

One problem that prevents us from simply doing a fresh install of the
latest Xubuntu and copying over is the fact that lirc is broken in
18.04. When I did the upgrade from 16.04 to 18.04 on our current box I
held back the lirc package so our remotes would continue to work. I
could reinstall 16.04 and do the same upgrade-hold-back process for
18.04.

I don't really want to add the 500GB as a slave to the 120GB (keeping
things simple).

Has anyone cloned SSD to SSD or does everyone mostly backup and reinstall?

Thanks,

Charles
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