[nmglug] HDD > SSD

[a]

Brian

Doesn't look too bad, should be able to come up with a quick fix, We'll  
probably need to sleep on it.

Best, a

On 6/3/19 7:08 PM, Brian O'Keefe 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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