Re: What's the best and easy way to copy/move my old slow 320 GB SATA HDD's updated Debian bullseye v11.3 to an old fast 115 GB SSD (going to wipe it clean)?

From	"J.O. Aho" <user@example.net>
Newsgroups	alt.os.debian, alt.os.linux, alt.os.linux.debian, alt.linux, alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions
Subject	Re: What's the best and easy way to copy/move my old slow 320 GB SATA HDD's updated Debian bullseye v11.3 to an old fast 115 GB SSD (going to wipe it clean)?
Date	2022-05-19 21:50 +0200
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On 19/05/2022 16:56, Ant wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> What's the best and easy way to copy/move my old slow 320 GB SATA HDD's
> updated Debian bullseye v11.3 to an old fast 115 GB SSD (going to wipe
> it clean)? Yes, SSD is smaller but my Debian's installation only uses
> about 8 GB. I installed Debian use the whole 320 GB drive. I will still
> be using the same 13 yrs. old PC.
> 
> Thank you for reading and hopefully answering soon. :)

As your main partition is larger than the SSD, will make it not possible 
to use dd to make a clone.

Using rsync has the limitation that it will not be able to install the 
boot loader.

One alternative is to use dd to clone the beginning of the HDD to the 
SDD, you would then need to repartition the SSD, format your partition 
that will be used on the SSD for / and then rsync the content from the HDD.

It's a lot easier if you go from a smaller disk to larger one, as then 
you can dd the old one to the new and then extend partition.

I would recommend a fresh install and then rsync the /home from the HDD 
to the SSD. This way you get all your personal configurations, if you 
need system configurations then you need to pick the right files from /etc.

-- 

  //Aho

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What's the best and easy way to copy/move my old slow 320 GB SATA HDD's updated Debian bullseye v11.3 to an old fast 115 GB SSD (going to wipe it clean)? ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2022-05-19 09:56 -0500
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