[nmglug] HDD > SSD

Tue Jun 4 11:20:56 PDT 2019

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 <okeefe at cybermesa.com 
> <mailto:okeefe at cybermesa.com>> 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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