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.linux.debian, alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions, alt.linux, alt.os.linux, alt.os.linux
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	2022-05-20 08:10 +0200
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On 19/05/2022 22.03, Anton Ertl wrote:
> ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) writes:
>> 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.
> 
> Create partitions on the SSD as desired, mkfs them, and then copy the
> contents of the directory with e.g., rsync, tar or cpio.
> 
> Then (the hard part) install the boot loader on your SSD so that it
> boots Linux.  No tips for that from me, it tends to be a fight
> involving chroot etc. and several attempts in recent years.  It used
> to be easier in the good old LILO days.

I would recommend the Getnoo documentation on the chroot, this for it 
includes /proc and /sys which seems to be required with Grub2 nowadays.

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Chroot

Of course you have to install the grub on the right disk, so that you 
don't update the one on the old disk.


> Followups set to alt.os.linux.debian.

That is quite rude, then I won't be able to follow the thread at all, so 
reverted your followup.


-- 

  //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
  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)? ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2022-05-19 14:16 -0500
    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)? Kirk_Rockstein <Kirk_Rockstein@nowhere.invalid> - 2022-05-19 22:27 +0000
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        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)? ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2022-05-22 19:45 -0500
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    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)? ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2022-05-22 20:06 -0500
  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)? "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> - 2022-05-19 21:50 +0200
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      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)? "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> - 2022-05-20 08:02 +0200
  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)? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2022-05-19 20:03 +0000
    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)? "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> - 2022-05-20 08:10 +0200
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