ASUS Tinker board move SD to USB

Community Tutorials
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Hi
After completed installation of DietPi_ASUSTB-ARMv7-Bullseye on my OLD Tinker board I was tempted to try something like build/nand-sata-install at master · armbian/build · GitHub.
There was some trial and error but in the end I did it as below.
USB connected and identified as /dev/sda1, it was already partitioned and formatted with ext4.

  1. Get UUID on the SD and USB
    SD_card=$(ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid/ | grep mmcblk1p1 | awk '{print $9}')
    USB_disk=$(ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid/ | grep sda1 | awk '{print $9}')

  2. Save/backup files that will be modified
    cp -p /boot/armbianEnv.txt /boot/armbianEnv.txt.ORG
    cp -p /boot/armbianEnv.txt /boot/armbianEnv.txt.NEW
    cp -p /etc/fstab /etc/fstab.ORG
    cp -p /etc/fstab /etc/fstab.NEW

  3. Update .NEW etc. as root
    sed -i "s/$SDcard/$USB_disk/g" /boot/armbianEnv.txt.NEW
    sed -i "s/$SD_card/$USB_disk/g" /etc/fstab.NEW
    sed -i "s/ext4 noatime,lazytime,rw/ext4 defaults,noatime/g" /etc/fstab.NEW
    mkdir -p /ssd/ssdboot
    echo "UUID=$SD_card /ssd/ssdboot ext4 defaults,noatime 0 1" >> /etc/fstab.NEW
    echo "/ssd/ssdboot/boot /boot none bind 0 0" >> /etc/fstab.NEW

  4. Copy SD to USB
    apt install rsync
    mount /dev/sda1 /media/
    Remove any old files
    rm -rf /media/*
    rsync -ax / /media
    cp -p /boot/armbianEnv.txt.NEW /boot/armbianEnv.txt
    cp -p /media/etc/fstab.NEW /media/etc/fstab
    umount /media

Fingers crossed and reboot
:grinning: :smiley: :smile:

My next step was apt search is really slow, > 10m for apt search git, on a rpi4 · Issue #5162 · MichaIng/DietPi · GitHub
Good Night
//Roger

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So it worked in the end but apt made some problems?
I will move this topic to the community tutorials categorie, because the tutorial character outweighs the problem which appeared after the relocation.

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It worked and the issue with slow apt search could be resolved, no SD card to reduce r/w operation on.
Even if apt search was slightly quicker on the SSD drive SAMSUNG MZ7PD128HCFV-000H7 :wink:
My OLD Asus Tinker Board ARMv7 Processor rev 1 (v7l)
Topic move to community tutorials :ok_hand: