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Hi everyone,<br>
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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">https://askubuntu.com/questions/6490/is-a-boot-partition-necessary-anymore</a><br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://superuser.com/questions/522971/is-a-boot-partition-always-necessary/522998#522998">https://superuser.com/questions/522971/is-a-boot-partition-always-necessary/522998#522998</a><br>
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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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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 6/5/19 10:07 PM, a wrote:<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>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 6/5/19 7:18 PM, Brian O'Keefe
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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
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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>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>
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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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