[nmglug] HDD > SSD

[Brian O'Keefe]

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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