I’m running Asahi on a Mac mini. There’s no battery. It’s a desktop

I’ve got an m1 Mac mini running Asahi and its great. Just make note, not all of the hardware features are 100% supported. I’m fine with what’s missing on my m1, but before you pull the trigger on an m2 Mac check the Asahi page and know exactly what machine you plan to install on. Do not buy it if you want or have to have hardware features that Asahi doesn’t support on the machine you’re planning to buy.

I didn’t expand it because I’m planning to dual boot NixOS. I’ve been wanting to wade in to NixOS and see what it’s all about.

Secnd clone was also a success! I cloned from the USB SSD to the NVMe, installed it, updated the UUIDs in fstab, and booted straight up!

That is actually what I did, by-id. The whole operation went off without a hitch. I’m up and running with my new 512GB nvme!

The first clone (to the interim usb ssd) was a success! I’ll report back after installing the new nvme and cloning from the ssd to the nvme.

It is lvm2. Thank you for the recommendation! I’ll check it out though I think I’m going to stick to the CLI for this one. I kind of want to do it manually.

I do plan to work from a bootsble USB for all the dd work so that nothing is mounted/in use.

Thanks. I’ll stick with dd then. You are correct, I think. I plan to dd the whole disk. The plan is:

dd if=/dev/nvme0n1 of=/dev/sdb bs=4M status=progress oflag=sync

unless that’s the wrong idea. once the usb ssd is done I will definitely check the luks container on the ssd. Size and data availability.

I’ll take a look at pvmove.

I can’t have both installed. Plan is to dd the 128 nvme to a USB SSD I have, then dd the SSD to the 512 once it’s installed in the laptop. All the xloning will be done by booting a USB ISO so no drives are in active use while being cloned.

No joke! I plan to quadruple check before I hit enter.

That I didn’t know. Thank you!

I’m a fan of flatpaks, so this isn’t to negate your argument. Just pointing out that Flathub is also using Equinix.

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Interlude: Equinix Metal née Packet has been sponsoring our heavy-lifting servers doing actual building for the past 5 years. Unfortunately, they are shutting down, meaning we need to move out by the end of April 2025.