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Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD

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On Wed, Mar 04, 2020 at 02:47:47PM +0000, Tony van der Hoff wrote:
>Gene didn't address my problem, but made the very useful observation 
>that disks spinning 24/7 don't really die. Perhaps I shouldn't worry 
>about replacing them.

the speed advantages are such that I try to avoid spinning disks for OSs
wherever possible these days since the costs for SSDs have gotten so 
low. 

>Andrei supports file-level copying, so I'll stick to that.

Yes, this is generally how I'd proceed. rsync existing filesystem onto 
the new one, bind mount /dev /proc and /sys to the new filesystem, then 
chroot into it, edit fstab on the new filesystem to point to the new 
root (I'd personally use the UUID) run grub-install to put the 
bootloader on the new disk, and then run update-grub. There are other 
approaches to setting up the bootloader as well. It's best to do all 
this in single user mode to avoid files changing while you're copying. 
Then you'll want to change the bios settings to boot off the ssd first 
rather than the hard drives.

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Advice on upgrading to SSD Tony van der Hoff <lists@vanderhoff.org> - 2020-03-02 12:30 +0100
  Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2020-03-02 14:00 +0100
    Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD Tony van der Hoff <lists@vanderhoff.org> - 2020-03-04 15:50 +0100
      Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD grumpy@mailfence.com - 2020-03-04 16:10 +0100
      Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2020-03-04 17:10 +0100
        Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us> - 2020-03-04 19:00 +0100
      Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD rhkramer@gmail.com - 2020-03-04 18:50 +0100
        Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2020-03-04 19:00 +0100
          Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD Cindy Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2020-03-04 20:30 +0100
          Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD "007@caiway.net" <007@caiway.net> - 2020-03-05 06:50 +0100
            Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD Klaus Singvogel <deb-user-ml@singvogel.net> - 2020-03-05 08:30 +0100
              Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-03-05 18:20 +0100
                Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2020-03-05 18:30 +0100
                Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD Klaus Singvogel <klaus@singvogel.net> - 2020-03-05 19:00 +0100
        Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2020-03-05 00:50 +0100
          Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2020-03-05 01:00 +0100
            Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2020-03-05 04:30 +0100
              Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2020-03-05 04:40 +0100
            Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-03-05 09:30 +0100
              Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD rhkramer@gmail.com - 2020-03-05 16:20 +0100
                Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2020-03-05 20:00 +0100
                Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD rhkramer@gmail.com - 2020-03-06 00:00 +0100
        Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2020-03-05 00:50 +0100
      Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2020-03-05 03:40 +0100
  Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2020-03-02 16:40 +0100
    Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD basti <basti@unix-solution.de> - 2020-03-02 17:30 +0100
      Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2020-03-02 20:00 +0100
    Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-03-03 09:30 +0100
  Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2020-03-02 19:20 +0100
    Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD Alex Mestiashvili <amestia@rsh2.donotuse.de> - 2020-03-02 20:40 +0100
  Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2020-03-02 20:20 +0100
    Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD Sarunas Burdulis <sarunas@math.dartmouth.edu> - 2020-03-02 20:30 +0100
      Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2020-03-02 20:30 +0100
        Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2020-03-02 22:10 +0100
  Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2020-03-03 01:50 +0100
    Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD Geoff <unit735@bigpond.com> - 2020-03-03 10:20 +0100

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