Upgrading SD Cards

[RobotVM]

I am planning on getting a bigger SD card soon but am wondering if I can just move all my files over to the new card or if I need to go through the initial set up again?

[Threepwood]

Just setup the new card with the latest installer and then copy everything over from the old to the new one, overwriting files present. It should give you no issues.

[RobotVM]

Thanks!

[keith.f.kelly]

It should give you no issues.

...except for symlinks, which (as discussed elsewhere in the Linux board) are a non-standard hack on top of exFAT filesystem, so if you’re using Windows to perform the copy, symlinks won’t get copied over correctly.

[The Low-Res Gamer]

It should give you no issues.

...except for symlinks, which (as discussed elsewhere in the Linux board) are a non-standard hack on top of exFAT filesystem, so if you’re using Windows to perform the copy, symlinks won’t get copied over correctly.

In that case, best to perform the usual setup and then copy over the ROM's ?

[keith.f.kelly]

Well... it depends. Sorgelig mentioned he was thinking about changing how MiSTer flags symlinks in exFAT, to use the actual (S)ystem attribute, as that's not used for any other purpose in Linux. I don't know if he's already made that change or not. If he has, then a copy operation that preserves the (S)ystem attribute should result in the symlinks actually copying over fine; if he hasn't, then symlinks may not copy over correctly.

You can perform a quick test:

1. On MiSTer, F9 to get to bash, and create a symlink someplace under /media/fat to use as a test.
2. Insert your microSD into your PC, and copy (using whatever copy tool/command/program you intend to use to copy everything over) that "symlink" (which will look like an ordinary file) to another name.
3. Put the microSD back into MiSTer, F9 to get to bash, and then go examine the copy and see if it looks like a proper symlink.

If that works, then you should be okay to copy across.

[colonel panic]

I got a MiSTer setup for my brother for his birthday last week and before I gave it to him I just ran the initial installer to format his SD card correctly, then just straight up copy-pasted everything in the root of my fat partition over to his card. I play-tested a few things and ran the update script as needed a few times before I gave it to him and everything seemed to work fine. He's had it for a week or so now and he said he hasn't ran into any issues yet either