[nmglug] HDD > SSD

Wed Jun 5 18:18:12 PDT 2019

Hi a

I think there's a meeting tomorrow? I know that you live away out and 
that you may not make the meeting.

At this point Jared is pretty right on about getting hands on help. For 
my last HD up grade I did exactly what Jared pointed out and I installed 
Ubuntu 18.04 onto the new drive and then just copied data I wanted from 
the old drive. I did this because my old drive's OS had been upgraded 
over the years (and cloned to newer drives) since Ubuntu 6.04 and had 
many configuration file patches, or work-arounds to get it to function. 
It did until one day when it blew and luckily, with Mark's help, I saved 
data and was able to preserve everything important with a few 
exceptions. Had my system not been pretty hosed and I anted the SSD I 
would have used dd but couldn't. That's a back story but it works just 
fine. I had to reinstall some apps and futz with my browser and mail 
client to get all of that data too but it wasn't difficult. It's not as 
"perfect" as a dd clone where you don't have to do anything but the 
cloning. It has potential downsides as you have found out, if one 
doesn't grok what is going on. Since I've never had an error yours is 
mysterious to me.

It is very weird that you have no boot partition on your HDD. I have a 
sense that in cancelling the dd op something got snipped out there. This 
happened with my hosed OS that I refer to above and luckily Mark was 
able to stop the bleed and rsync'd most of everything onto a spare 
drive. (I have 4 or 5 drives that I've kept from these dd upgraded 
drives so I have plenty of storage or salvage, depending on the need). 
But losing a partition is strange but could be that you did not use a 
bootable cd or thumb drive. Is that the case? As I wrote I use dd with a 
live cd and so the HDs aren't involved in anything other than the 
cloning. You can imagine that a drive, the one in your machine, is 
trying to run the command to clone itself while it is running processes 
as it always does. It's a moving source of data that is copying blocks 
that may include running processes, like GParted for instance.

A question that a I think I know the answer to, but did you get the 
lsblk info after your attempted cloning?

So do you have a functional OS on your machine? Can you run apps, etc.? 
Is your data there? If these are the case then a fix can be made, I'm 
pretty sure. It will take one of the supreme GLUGGers I believe. BTW, I 
have found tons of info on support sites as almost every issue has been 
experienced by someone else at sometime. Here's and example of what a 
google search of your error brought up:  http://tinyurl.com/yxks8hww

Sorry that this happened but I have learned more from my mistakes than 
anything and one thing I have learned is that almost anything can be 
fixed and if I can't figure it out the answer is out there and in our 
cases we have a vast storehouse of brainiacs in out GLUGGer groups and 
they all have great dispositions and are happy to help!

Sorry for my verbose emails. It's how my mind works.

Brian

On 6/5/19 4:02 PM, a wrote:
>
> 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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