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<p>Hi a</p>
<p>I think there's a meeting tomorrow? I know that you live away out
and that you may not make the meeting. <br>
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<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>A question that a I think I know the answer to, but did you get
the lsblk info after your attempted cloning?<br>
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<p>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: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://tinyurl.com/yxks8hww">http://tinyurl.com/yxks8hww</a></p>
<p>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!</p>
<p>Sorry for my verbose emails. It's how my mind works.</p>
<p>Brian<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 6/5/19 4:02 PM, a wrote:<br>
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<p>Doesn't look too bad, should be able to come up with a quick
fix, We'll probably need to sleep on it.</p>
<p>Best, a<br>
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<p>Hi All,</p>
<p>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!!):</p>
<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">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</pre>
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<p>Hi Jason<br>
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<p>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, <br>
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<p> Best a</p>
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<p>Hi a</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Jason</p>
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<pre>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; <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.ostechnix.com/backup-entire-linux-system-using-rsync/" moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.ostechnix.com/backup-entire-linux-system-using-rsync/</a>) 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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