В Wed, 31 Dec 2014 13:55:08 +1030
Rodney Baker
Hi all. A question for those with a little more experience with SSD's. I want to move oS 13.1 from conventional HDD's to a 128GB SSD, everything except /home. /var and some other general data storage partitions (so basically /boot, /, /usr, /usr/local and /opt.
I have these already as separate partitions - can I use dd to copy the boot sector and relevant partitions to the SSD and then connect it up in place of the first hdd (currently /dev/sda) and expect the system to boot?
It may work if partition layout remains exactly the same. Do not forget that you also need to copy post-MBR space where bootloader is likely installed. I usually prefer to simply copy files and reinstall bootloader in this case - it makes sure everything is setup properly and nothing is forgotten. It also takes less time than dd of raw partition. But it does require more adjustments (because filesystems UUIDs change). -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org