REFORM-MIGRATE(1)

✨ REFORM-MIGRATE ✨

okay bestie, listen up — this is the reform-migrate manual page, and it's literally the tool that scoops up your whole entire rootfs and plops it onto a new device 💅 no cap.

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🎀 NAME 🎀

reform-migrate — copy rootfs to device 💖

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

🦋 Usage:

reform-migrate [--emmc] TARGET

So here's the tea ☕: it mounts TARGET and copies the currently running system onto it using rsync. That's it, that's the vibe.

⚠️ girl. listen. This will overwrite ALL existing files in TARGET. Every single one. Gone. So like… make sure you actually mean it, okay? 😭

At the end, reform-boot-config gets run and will set up the first partition of the SD-card or eMMC (depending on the --emmc option) to load your newly copied rootfs, and it adjusts /etc/fstab of TARGET accordingly. iconic behavior honestly 🫶

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -h, --help — Show this help message and exit. the classic "wait what does this do again" button 🎀
• --emmc — Record boot preference on eMMC instead of SD card. main character energy for your eMMC, fr fr 💜

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🚨 important aside bestie: this script does NOT set up partitions for you. it's not doing that. don't ask. 🙈

If you would like to configure full disk encryption and set up partitions accordingly automatically, consider using the reform-setup-encrypted-disk tool instead of reform-migrate. that one's the whole package deal 💖✨

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🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

reform-migrate --emmc /dev/nvme0n1p1

Mounts the first partition of an NVMe disk and mirrors your system to it. Configures booting from the first partition on eMMC. slay 🦋

reform-migrate /dev/mapper/crypt

Mounts encrypted disk 'crypt' and mirrors your system to it. The disk has to be unlocked first with: cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/nvme0n1p1 crypt — and because the --emmc option is missing, it Configures booting from the first partition on the SD-card. periodt 💅

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and that's the whole page bestie!! this was reform-migrate version 1.71, dated December 2025 — go forth and migrate responsibly, ily, mwah 💖💖💖