Re: HDD > SSD
Brian O'Keefe <[email protected]>
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You bet Satsangat. I used a Gparted disk to find the definition of the drives and then the command line in the included terminal emulator after checking, rechecking and then checking again that I had the correct drive designations. I think the cloning took less that an hour and no data loss or other glitch. Just a new, larger SSD with all, everything. If someone wants to walk a through it that would be a good thin. I think Jason helped me as well as Eric but that was so long ago I don't know, besides you, who can walk a through it. It scared me aft first also but it turns out to be a simple process and I will do it again should my 1 TB SSD ever need to have more capacity. I can't imagine that but then I also thought that my Apple G3 desktop with 4GB drive was enormous! It wasn't Brian On 6/4/19 9:39 AM, Satsangat Khalsa wrote: > This is great info, Brian. > > On Mon, Jun 3, 2019 at 7:08 PM Brian O'Keefe <[email protected] > <mailto:[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 >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> nmglug mailing list >>>> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >>>> http://lists.nmglug.org/listinfo.cgi/nmglug-nmglug.org >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> nmglug mailing list >>> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >>> http://lists.nmglug.org/listinfo.cgi/nmglug-nmglug.org >> >> _______________________________________________ >> nmglug mailing list >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> http://lists.nmglug.org/listinfo.cgi/nmglug-nmglug.org > -- > _______________________________________________ > nmglug mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > http://lists.nmglug.org/listinfo.cgi/nmglug-nmglug.org > > > _______________________________________________ > nmglug mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.nmglug.org/listinfo.cgi/nmglug-nmglug.org -- _______________________________________________ nmglug mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nmglug.org/listinfo.cgi/nmglug-nmglug.org