Re: HDD > SSD

This is great info, Brian.

On Mon, Jun 3, 2019 at 7:08 PM Brian O'Keefe <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I've mentioned before but dd makes this a simple and fool-proof method of
> cloning the old drive to the new one. It takes an enclosure for the new
> drive w/ usb connection and that's it. After checking the drive names to
> get the correct info into the command line it is simply running something
> along the following (in case your drives show up differently but this is
> what I did upon fellow NMGLUGgers. Special thanks to Eric almost 10 years
> ago!!):
>
> dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=1M conv=notrunc,noerror
>
>
> ...will copy everything from hard drive sda to sdb  (i.e. all
> partitions, swap and all data), a true clone.  No need to create
> partitions or format them on the target hard drive as the dd command
> will create them because it is copy of every single block of sda.
>
> Now if you where copying a single partition to a new drive yes you
> would have to create the target partition on the new hard drive.
>
> dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/dev/sdb1 bs=1M conv=notrunc,noerror
>
> In the command above this would clone partition 1 on drive sda to
> partition 1 on drive sdb.  In this case you would not need to format
> the new target partition either as it is again copying every block of
> partition 1 of the source sda1 to the target sdb1.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> - Eric
>
>
> On 6/3/19 6:47 PM, a wrote:
>
> Hi Jason
>
> Thanks for the good thought, i do not know who that person, to meet early,
> could  be?. If you will be around Thursday lunch get things rolling, under
> 300Gb. or wait till later in the week, see how things "shake out", another
> meeting is okay, the ssd has arrived I have a usb adapter,
>
>  Best a
>
>
> On 5/30/19 9:02 PM, jason schaefer wrote:
>
> Hi a
>
> I highly recommend coming to a meeting to get this done in person. For
> something like this its good to get confirmation that someone is willing
> and able to help you at the meeting. It would also be good to meet this
> person early to allow time for such a migration. I might be able to be this
> person next week but my days are so crazy its hard to say what time I would
> be able to get to the meeting.
>
> Jason
>
>
> On 5/30/19 5:42 PM, a wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I have ordered a 500G ssd to install my laptop, with my limited knowledge and support devices.(i no need a live disc) My tentative plan follow the Https below transfer to external HDD  then reverse
> the process to the ssd?
>
>
> IN 1.)
>
> ( SUDO LINE BELOW FROM; https://www.ostechnix.com/backup-entire-linux-system-using-rsync/) USING THERE SITE EXAMPLE FOLLOWING:
>
>  $ sudo rsync -aAXv / --exclude={"/dev/*","/proc/*","/sys/*","/tmp/*","/run/*","/mnt/*","/media/*","/lost+found"} /mnt
>
>
> Q.) IS MY DESTINATION CORRECTLY CONFIGURED?. SUBSTITUTING /MNT LAST PART PREVIOUS LINE FOR:  /home/a//media/a/6fbdc743-fc0f-46e4-aea3-8160914c34ec/backup_HDD TO GET
> THE COMPOSITE LINE BELOW:
>
> $ sudo rsync -aAXv / --exclude={"/dev/*","/proc/*","/sys/*","/tmp/*","/run/*","/mnt/*","/media/*","/lost+found"} /home/a//media/a/6fbdc743-fc0f-46e4-aea3-8160914c34ec/backup_HDD
>
>
>
> BEST.a
>
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