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)?

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)?
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From	"25.BX945" <25BZ495@nada.net>
Date	2022-05-24 22:14 -0400
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On 5/23/22 12:11 AM, Ant wrote:
> In comp.os.linux.setup 25.BX945 <25BZ495@nada.net> wrote:
>> On 5/22/22 10:01 PM, Bit Twister wrote:
>>> On Sun, 22 May 2022 20:08:35 -0500, Ant wrote:
>>>
>>>> 6. Rebooted to SSD, but it still went to my HDD! So, I found out it was because of the confusing UUIDs from Grub.
>>>> 7. Physically disconnected HDD's SATA cable and retried. It worked. I was hoping to keep both connected just in case. :(
>>>
>>> You can have both. They just have to have different UUIDs, updated /etc/fstab and gurub update/installed.
> 
>>    Correct. You need to tweak 'fstab' AND the old drive. You can't
>>    have two identically UUID identified drives in there. The
>>    alternative - one I like - is to drop the UUID crap entirely
>>    and create NAMED drives in fstab. It's easier to tell what's
>>    what afterwards...
> 
> Why did they even use UUIDs? It's so confusing.

   They thought it would be more "generic" - uniquely identifying
   a disk. Alas such a scheme TELLS you NOTHING USEFUL. I like
   names that DO tell you something, helps keep track, esp if
   you have a box with lots of drives/partitions. I keep one
   with EIGHT drives and 12 partitions ... need all the cues
   I can get with that one. I don't WANT the UUID idea of
   "uniquely identified", assigning human-readable names lets
   me just slide in a replacement disk without fartin' around
   very much. Fstab just sees "BakDrive3" and doesn't care if
   it's the same physical disk as before.

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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 09:57 -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)? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2022-05-19 16:16 +0100
  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)? Marco Moock <mo01@posteo.de> - 2022-05-19 17:54 +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)? ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2022-05-19 13:08 -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)? Parodper <parodper@disroot.org> - 2022-05-19 18:06 +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)? Tauno Voipio <tauno.voipio@notused.fi.invalid> - 2022-05-19 19:29 +0300
  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 14:17 -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)? Bit Twister <BitTwister@mouse-potato.com> - 2022-05-19 14:52 -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) - 2022-05-22 20:08 -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)? Bit Twister <BitTwister@mouse-potato.com> - 2022-05-22 21:01 -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)? "25.BX945" <25BZ495@nada.net> - 2022-05-22 23:53 -0400
          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 23:11 -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)? Bit Twister <BitTwister@mouse-potato.com> - 2022-05-22 23:20 -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)? Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2022-05-23 10:34 +0300
            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)? "25.BX945" <25BZ495@nada.net> - 2022-05-24 22:14 -0400
              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)? "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org> - 2022-05-24 22:53 -0400
                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)? Bit Twister <BitTwister@mouse-potato.com> - 2022-05-25 03:00 -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)? "25.BX945" <25BZ495@nada.net> - 2022-05-25 23:55 -0400
          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)? Bit Twister <BitTwister@mouse-potato.com> - 2022-05-22 23:14 -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)? Tauno Voipio <tauno.voipio@notused.fi.invalid> - 2022-05-23 17:36 +0300
  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)? Bobbie Sellers <bliss@mouse-potato.com> - 2022-05-19 12:32 -0700
    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)? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2022-05-20 12:06 +0100
  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)? James Moe <jimoeDESPAM@sohnen-moe.com> - 2022-05-19 21:04 -0700

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