Conventional hard disk to SSD

zeebra · 09-07-2019, 06:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Firerat

I wouldn't bother with dd at all

just a good old fashioned

Code:

cp -a /mnt/oldhome/<username> ~/

assuming the old disk was attached via usb or esata and its home mounted to /mnt/oldhome

I'd do it in dolphin actually if I had to.

But I don't have to because my /home is persistent. Neat thing about doing it with dolphin over cp or dd is you see the progress and know how long it should take, and you also can read what it is copying etc.

Firerat · 09-07-2019, 06:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by zeebra

I'd do it in dolphin actually if I had to.

But I don't have to because my /home is persistent.

how does a persistent /home help you move to a new harddrive?

Quote:

Originally Posted by zeebra

Neat thing about doing it with dolphin over cp or dd is you see the progress and know how long it should take, and you also can read what it is copying etc.

if you wanted to slow it down with cp you could

Code:

cp -av /mn/oldhome ~/

:P

I used to like dolphin, so much so I would install it after I ditched kde.
But these days I almost never use a file manager
Honestly, I'm struggling to remember the last time.

If I were to copy /home, I would zfs send/receive

lostaccount · 09-08-2019, 03:58 PM

Hi Guys, unfortunately I have not had chance to do the disk swap yet as I have been busy with other issue's which has left me no time to be able to do the disk swap.

As I pointed pointed out in one of my early posts, I am going down the image\clone\copy route to gain knowledge and experience, I have done reinstall plenty of times in the past, and ultimately if all else fails, it is my recovery method anyway (and yes I have daily backups).

Thanks for all the info, will let you know how it goes.

zeebra · 09-08-2019, 05:31 PM

wrong thread.