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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)?

From Bit Twister <BitTwister@mouse-potato.com>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.help, comp.os.linux.misc, comp.os.linux.questions, comp.os.linux.setup, linuxanswers.discussion
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 2022-05-25 03:00 -0500
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On Tue, 24 May 2022 22:53:20 -0400, David W. Hodgins wrote:
> On Tue, 24 May 2022 22:14:16 -0400, 25.BX945 <25BZ495@nada.net> wrote:
>> On 5/23/22 12:11 AM, Ant wrote:
>>> Why did they even use UUIDs? It's so confusing.
>
> The use of uuids were a solution to the problem where drive detection can't
> be relied on to always be in the same order. The first drive that's fully
> powered up becomes sda, even if it's usually the second drive, so sdb.
>
>>    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.
>
> You don't have to use the uuid. From my fstab ...
> LABEL=x7b / ext4 defaults,noatime 1 1
>
> I chose the label x7b as it's an x86_64 install of Mageia 7 (since upgraded to 8)
> on /dev/sdb. Like the uuid, if you choose to use a label, it's up to you to ensure
> it's unique. Use a label that means something to you, or let the system use the
> generated uuid. Your choice.


Yep, I use labels, even for swap. Except I use the swap partition label
because each format of swap wipes out the Medial label/UUID, which is usually
performed when installing a new OS.

I usually set the Partition label and media label to the same value.
Those usually become my mount points.

$ grep swap /etc/fstab
PARTLABEL=swap swap swap defaults,nofail 0 0

$ lsblk -o NAME,TYPE,FSTYPE,MOUNTPOINT,LABEL,PARTLABEL
NAME    TYPE FSTYPE MOUNTPOINT LABEL         PARTLABEL
sda     disk
├─sda1  part ext4              mga6          mga6
├─sda2  part ext4   /          mga8          mga8
├─sda3  part ext4              mga7          mga7
├─sda4  part ext4              cauldron      cauldron
├─sda5  part ext4   /local     local         local
├─sda6  part ext4   /accounts  accounts      accounts
├─sda7  part ext4   /misc      misc          misc
├─sda8  part ext4   /spare     spare         spare
├─sda9  part ext4   /vmguest   vmguest       vmguest
└─sda10 part                                 bios_grub
sdb     disk
├─sdb1  part swap   [SWAP]     swap          swap
├─sdb2  part ext4              bk_up         bk_up
├─sdb3  part ext4              hotbu         hotbu
├─sdb4  part ext4              cauldron_bkup cauldron_bkup
├─sdb5  part ext4   /myth      myth          myth
├─sdb6  part ext4              net_ins       net_ins
└─sdb7  part ext4              net_ins_bkup  net_ins_bkup

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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
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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 20:08 -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
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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)? "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
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