I’m going to upgrade the micro SD card I use for emulation to one with more storage. What is the best way to close the micro SD card I have in my steam deck now to a new one so I can just plug in and go with all my games and save files?
You can use dd, but as others have said, dd is nicknamed disk destroyer. If it was me, I’d probably just copy the files, which will be slower but easier to do.
phanto’s suggestion of using gparted/kparted is also a good one. Another thing to keep in mind is that many cloning programs will clone the partition size as well, so you may need to use kparted when you’re done to grow the partition to the larger microsd size.
phanto@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
Everyone is going to tell you to use dd. dd if=/dev/oldsdcard of=/dev/newsdcard
Personally, I have actually eaten an entire system by getting the wrong /dev names for the input file and the output file.
Gparted lets you copy whole partitions and resize them, and is graphical. I have yet to destroy my computer using gparted, but I’ve definitely done so with dd. (I’m also an idiot though, so…)
random_character_a@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Yeah, but if you fuck up with dd, you get to install new linux and possibly try another distro.
Like kid in a candy store.
colourlesspony@pawb.social 4 days ago
Also, accidentally deleting all your valuable data with without a working backup is valuable lesson that I like to take the time to re-learn every few years.
Sorse@discuss.tchncs.de 4 days ago
Though that’s 100% possible, Bringus actually destroyed his system drive on a laptop by being impatient while using gparted www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0T9SiUVvHk
phanto@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
No! You shouldn’t have told me that it could be done! Now, the next time I launch gparted, I’ll somehow manage to wipe everything! Not just my system, but, like, all my systems! If it can be broken on a computer, I’ll be the one to break it!