Hi Tim,
> > > (current hard disk is 500gb - formating etc.) and I am looking at
> > > fitting a 250gb ssd.
>
> Disk /dev/sda: 500107862016B
$ units 500107862016B bytes
465 GiB + 780 MiB + 24 KiB
> Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
>
> Number Start End Size Type File system
> Flags
> 1 1048576B 49217011711B 49215963136B primary ext4
Its end is well within the area of the new smaller SSD.
$ units -1 49217011711B bytes
45 GiB + 856 MiB + 1023 KiB + 1023 B
> 2 49217011712B 468647411711B 419430400000B primary ext4
And that covers most of the rust, starting from the end of sda1,
$ expr 468647411712 - 468647411711 - 1
0
and going nearly to the end, just before the swap.
$ units -1 468647411711B bytes
436 GiB + 472 MiB + 1023 KiB + 1023 B
> 3 468647411712B 500105249279B 31457837568B primary linux-swap(v1)
If you're not dependent on that swap then you could delete that
partition before the transfer so it's less to do, creating a new one on
the SSD, if you think it's worthwhile.
> df -k /dev/sda?*
> Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda1 47045404 5712048 38913852 13% /
> /dev/sda2 402123024 23220796 358405844 7% /home
> udev 3890100 0 3890100 0% /dev
Adding the amount used of sda2, /home, onto its starting point as a
rough guide doesn't get us far into a 250 GB SSD.
$ units -1 49217011712B+23220796KiB bytes
67 GiB + 1005 MiB + 572 KiB
So I'd
- Delete the swap partition unless the machine is crippled without
it.
- Boot from a recent live USB stick that offers gparted.
- Use gparted to shrink /home so its end is comfortably under a
250 GB SSD's limit.
Then the content you wish to copy will fit on the smaller destination.
How you do the copy comes down to personal preference a bit.
I'd dd(1), but you might be more use to something else?
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