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Hi everyone,<br>
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I'm replying directly to the mailing list so that everyone can see
what I sent to a. So you're on the same page for tonight.<br>
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I'm glad to see that you're on the SSD now!<br>
<br>
It looks like swap might not work until that partition is fixed.<br>
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I would probably leave it as is now. This is what I would do if I
were given the laptop at this point. Again, I'm being purposely
vague so that someone at the LUG can help guide you in greater
detail. This shouldn't take long in person either. Though there are
so many ways to skin this cat; I'm sure everyone will have a
slightly different opinion.<br>
<br>
Remove the second (dead) partition. Resize the first partition to
use all space, save for 4GB. Make a new partition that the remaining
4 GB. Make that partition a swap partition. Edit fstab to have the
new uuid. Reboot to make sure it all works, include testing the swap
partition.<br>
<br>
Again I would put the old HDD in a static bag. In case you find you
need it for the future.<br>
<br>
Congratulations on getting the SSD to boot!<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
<br>
Jared<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 6/6/19 11:19 AM, a wrote:<br>
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<p>Hi</p>
<p>i am replying from the external SSD, via F12 boot from usb
device. there remains the question of the aa74 signature error,
and does not show on file manage perhaps fstab issue?</p>
<p>Best, a<br>
</p>
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Hi a,<br>
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Are you able to boot off the SSD?<br>
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Should be a boot option from the BIOS menu. Sometimes it's
F9-12. Sometimes Del. Depends on the model.<br>
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If it's a USB mount, you might have some issues, but worth a
quick test.<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
<br>
Jared<br>
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<p>Hi all<br>
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<p>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 <br>
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<p>download close down.<br>
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<p>still uncertain if there is a mount unmount consideration.</p>
<p>Best, a<br>
</p>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 6/6/19 7:57 AM, ABQLUG wrote:<br>
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Hi everyone,<br>
<br>
When I went home I had some more time to look at why the
/boot partition wasn't there. TIL<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/6490/is-a-boot-partition-necessary-anymore"
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
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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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
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Regards,<br>
<br>
Jared<br>
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<p>Brian</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Best, a</p>
<p><br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 6/5/19 7:18 PM, Brian
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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>
</p>
<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>
</p>
<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"
moz-do-not-send="true">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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<p> <br>
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<p>Brian <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>
</p>
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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>
</p>
<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>
<p><br>
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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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