<div dir="auto">Brian & a, it would be nice to see you at the NMGLug meeting tonight. I hah been reading the thread, but would like to know the whole story and the outcome. Thank you, Ted P.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Jun 5, 2019, 10:07 PM a <<a href="mailto:a@kaluta.us">a@kaluta.us</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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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="m_-3974235539317536952moz-cite-prefix">On 6/5/19 7:18 PM, Brian O'Keefe wrote:<br>
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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="m_-3974235539317536952moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://tinyurl.com/yxks8hww" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">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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<div class="m_-3974235539317536952moz-cite-prefix">On 6/5/19 4:02 PM, a wrote:<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>
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<div class="m_-3974235539317536952moz-cite-prefix">On 6/3/19 7:08 PM, Brian O'Keefe
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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="m_-3974235539317536952moz-quote-pre">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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<div class="m_-3974235539317536952moz-cite-prefix">On 6/3/19 6:47 PM, a wrote:<br>
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<p>Hi Jason<br>
</p>
<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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<div class="m_-3974235539317536952moz-cite-prefix">On 5/30/19 9:02 PM, jason
schaefer wrote:<br>
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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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<div class="m_-3974235539317536952moz-cite-prefix">On 5/30/19 5:42 PM, a wrote:<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="m_-3974235539317536952moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.ostechnix.com/backup-entire-linux-system-using-rsync/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">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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