[nmglug] HDD > SSD
ABQLUG
community at abqlug.com
Thu Jun 6 10:09:53 PDT 2019
Hi a,
Are you able to boot off the SSD?
Should be a boot option from the BIOS menu. Sometimes it's F9-12.
Sometimes Del. Depends on the model.
If it's a USB mount, you might have some issues, but worth a quick test.
Regards,
Jared
On 6/6/19 11:04 AM, a wrote:
>
> Hi all
>
> Here is the latest, erased sdd put ext4, downloaded today for 2 3/4
> hours led still flashing closed the download these attachments are all
> gathered after
>
> download close down.
>
> still uncertain if there is a mount unmount consideration.
>
> Best, a
>
> On 6/6/19 7:57 AM, ABQLUG wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> When I went home I had some more time to look at why the /boot
>> partition wasn't there. TIL
>>
>> https://askubuntu.com/questions/6490/is-a-boot-partition-necessary-anymore
>>
>> https://superuser.com/questions/522971/is-a-boot-partition-always-necessary/522998#522998
>>
>> TL;DR: Some circumstances require separate partitions for swap and/or
>> /boot, and even gain performance under certain circumstances. However
>> there is no technical reason for a"normal" system to have separate
>> partitions.
>>
>> Likely this was the default setup at some point. Sorry I didn't
>> notice that the first time. Normally I manually setup the partitions,
>> and have just added the /boot out of a "legacy" habit.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Jared
>>
>> On 6/5/19 10:07 PM, a wrote:
>>>
>>> Brian
>>>
>>> I was planning to attend the meeting tomorrow if I received a
>>> supportive response to my various queries this past week, Gparted
>>> loaded after I rebooted, I used the given option to terminate the os
>>> load so the followed offered choice which I image was used to avert
>>> error , I would have tried again if I had known if the receiving SSD
>>> needed to be mounted or unmounted. whether the unallocated file
>>> system needed any tweeking a few basic things of that sort, I have
>>> erased the ssd contents, If you will be there to assist and enough
>>> time to do the load otherwise without assurance of assistance I will
>>> not make attendance a priority. Nevertheless thanks for your
>>> persistence in this venture.
>>>
>>> Best, a
>>>
>>>
>>> On 6/5/19 7:18 PM, Brian O'Keefe wrote:
>>>>
>>>> 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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