On 2014-01-31, Kruppt <krupp...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > On 2014-01-31, Fabrice Vaillant <fa.vaill...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi >> I'm using debian 7.3 on my laptop (Dell E5530) and it runs perfectly >> fine. I'm considering remplacing the hdd by a ssd. >> The thing is I'd rather not go through the hassle of setting up debian >> to suit my computer. The question I'm asking is, what would be the >> simplest way(if it is possible) to "clone" my existing installation onto >> the new ssd. >> Knowing that the root and the home are on two different partition of my >> hdd which are the only partition on my disk beside the swap. >> Howewer the ssd is smaller than the disk and the home partition will >> need to be resized. I also consider slightly increasing the root >> partition size as it is quitte full (77%) after running "apt-get clean". >> >> Since I am at it, I would also like to know if it is possible to remove >> the swap as it is bad for ssd life to write and rewrite, and I have >> plenty (8 giga) of ram. >> >> Cheers >> Fabrice >> >> > > Yes you can clone it easily with rsync. > Create the partitions and filesystems on the new SSD, > via gparted or fdisk, mke2fs or whatever. > Then use rsync to clone the filesystems onto > the new SDD partitions/filesystems. > > Lets say the original HDD is layed out like below > as an example, and partitions, filesystems have been created, > > Boot up a LiveCD such as SystemRescueCD on a comp with > both drives connected. > Make mount points for partitions to > be cloned and mount them all. > > HDD > sda1 swap > sda2 / > sda3 /home > > SSD > sdb2 swap > sdb2 / > sda3 /home > >>From Root Terminal run: > rsync -av --delete /mnt/sda2/ /mnt/sdb2;rsync -av --delete /mnt/sda2/ > /mnt/sdb2
Above line should read: rsync -av --delete /mnt/sda2/ /mnt/sdb2;rsync -av --delete /mnt/sda3/ /mnt/sdb3 > This clones the two filesytems on the HDD to new SSD > (since there is nothing on the new filesystem > the --delete option is redundant so could be ignored) > > Then you would want to install Grub. > Chroot into the / filesystem on SSD > (sdb2 in this example) > > mount --bind /proc /mnt/sdb2/proc > mount --bind /sys /mnt/sdb2/sys > mount --bind /run /mnt/sdb2/run > mount --bind /dev /mnt/sdb2/dev > mount --bind /dev/pts /mnt/sdb2/dev/pts > chroot /mnt/sdb2 /bin/bash > > grub-install --root-directory=/mnt/sdb2 /dev/sdb > grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg > update-initramfs -uk $(uname -r) > > exit chroot > > Then you will need to edit your fstab file, > to reflect changes if any, especially if using > UUID's. (Run blkid -c /dev/null, the output will > show the UUID's, then edit fstab to reflect new UUID's) > > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/bletpaf5k...@mid.individual.net
