I have a UEFI laptop (Lenovo Thinkpad P72) with multiple internal NVMe drive slots. I currently have a documents and media drive in slot 0, and a boot drive in slot 1.
Ubuntu 20.04 and my various customizations is installed on one of several partitions (along with Windows crap I never use, and the EFI partition), formatted as ext4
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What I want help accomplishing:
I have a much larger new NVMe SSD I would like to place temporarily into slot 0, and essentially clone my existing slot 1 Ubuntu boot partition to (possibly needing to edit fstab device ID strings?). Once installed, I want to take the current boot drive out of slot 0, replace it with the new drive, and return the documents/media drive to slot 1. Va-voom!
I do not understand if and how UEFI will interact with a new boot drive/replacing the current drive. Maybe this is a non-issue if I am not intending a dual-boot system?
I would prefer to accomplish the cloning while booting from my current drive, but could instead use a Clonezilla USB thumb drive instead.
If possible, I would like the new boot drive to be encrypted (the current drive is not), and I do not know how to do that, or if it is possible in my cloning scenario.
I fear hosing the new drive, and/or not creating a successful clone. Can you help me walk this through?
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