[nmglug] HDD > SSD

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Brian

When I run dd what should be mounted or unmounted?

Thanks, a

On 6/3/19 8:35 PM, a wrote:
>
> Brian
>
> Thanks for the thoughts, tomorrow I have busy day, time permitting,I 
> will let you know if your suggestion is "fool Proof", since I consider 
> myself an an "a demonstrably qualified fool" along the lines of linux.
>
> 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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