On Jun 24, 2013, at 8:20 PM, LuKreme <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jun 24, 2013, at 14:33, Carl Hoefs <[email protected]> wrote: > >> We have a server Mac mini[1] running OS X 10.6.8 Server as our office mail >> server, and I need to replace the old internal 1 TB HDD with a new 250GB >> SDD. The internal HDD has two 500GB partitions, but only the 1st partition >> is used, and only 70 GB at that. > > Are you sure? The 10.6 era mini server has 2x500GB drives.
Gadzooks! You are right! I misinterpreted the output of df as a single 1 TB drive partitioned into two 500 GB, rather than two individual drives 500GB drives. Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on /dev/disk1s2 488050672 68924584 418870088 15% / devfs 187 187 0 100% /dev /dev/disk0s2 488050672 437720 487612952 1% /Volumes/Macintosh HD2 map -hosts 0 0 0 100% /net map auto_home 0 0 0 100% /home map -fstab 0 0 0 100% /Network/Servers > >> Does this plan sound reasonable: >> >> 1. Place the SDD in an external drive enclosure and format it as Mac OS >> Extended Journaled. >> 2. Make an image(?) copy of the HDD drive's 1st partition onto the SDD (how?) > > Disk Utility. Or dd. It looks like Disk Utility uses dd behind the curtains to perform the Restore function. > >> 3. Physically swap out the HDD with the SDD. > > This is the tricky part. It is a tedious task! I agree it would be simpler/better to use TDM to another Mac mini, but we don't have money in the budget for that right now :-( Thx!
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