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How to clone your Raspberry Pi card to an SSD… and add a home partition While you’re about it

I decided to upgrade my Raspberry Pi 4 homelab server to the Raspberry Pi 5. I took the opportunity to upgrade the storage from a 64GB USB drive to Raspberry PI’s M.2 PCIe Hat and a 256GB SSD. This begged a question: how to replicate the three partitions on the USB drive — boot, root and home — on the SSD, especially with larger partition sizes? Here’s what I did.

Raspberry Pi 256GB SSD
A 256GB SSD. Image © Raspberry Pi Ltd
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