Re: Advice sought re HDD --> SSD migration

2016-06-10 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 7:14 PM Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Thu, Jun 09, 2016 at 02:13:58PM +, Mark Fletcher wrote: > > Apart from fixing that, what's left to do is to disconnect and remove the > > 500GB hard disk, move the SSD to the hard disk's SATA port so it is > >

Re: Advice sought re HDD --> SSD migration

2016-06-10 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Sat, Jun 04, 2016 at 11:11:37AM +, Mark Fletcher wrote: > I've got a feeling though that the main disk is going to be a bit more of a > challenge, and that is what I want advice about. I'm thinking I should boot > from a live image and effect the copy there so that the disk is not mounted >

Re: Advice sought re HDD --> SSD migration

2016-06-10 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Thu, Jun 09, 2016 at 02:13:58PM +, Mark Fletcher wrote: > Apart from fixing that, what's left to do is to disconnect and remove the > 500GB hard disk, move the SSD to the hard disk's SATA port so it is > /dev/sda Where do you depend upon it being /dev/sda? I'd strongly recommend using

Re: Advice sought re HDD --> SSD migration

2016-06-09 Thread David Wright
On Thu 09 Jun 2016 at 14:13:58 (+), Mark Fletcher wrote: > Just one thing I wasn't sure about -- what should the permissions of the > /media directory be? drwxr-xr-x 75 root root 4096 Jul 10 2015 media/ I make the mountpoints within: drwx-- 2 root root 4096 May 5 2014 cdrom0/ which

Re: Advice sought re HDD --> SSD migration

2016-06-09 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 7:24 AM David Christensen wrote: > On 06/05/2016 04:40 AM, Mark Fletcher wrote: > > > > ... Any clever ploys to deal with [changing UID's and GID's after a > > fresh install]? > > For users, I track usernames, UID's, and GID's, and refer to that

Re: Advice sought re HDD --> SSD migration

2016-06-05 Thread David Christensen
On 06/05/2016 04:40 AM, Mark Fletcher wrote: ... if I understand correctly, [the SSD 960 GB RAID1] option would end up reducing my available space from 1.5TB in HDD land to 1TB (or 960GB) in SSD land, which is also a disadvantage. A large SSD RAID is great for multimedia editor scratch files,

Re: Advice sought re HDD --> SSD migration

2016-06-05 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Sun, Jun 5, 2016 at 11:06 PM David Wright wrote: > On Sun 05 Jun 2016 at 08:30:38 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote: > > Mark Fletcher composed on 2016-06-05 11:40 (UTC): > > > > > I think users and their passwords are the least of the problem. > A fresh install of jessie

Re: Advice sought re HDD --> SSD migration

2016-06-05 Thread David Wright
On Sun 05 Jun 2016 at 08:30:38 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote: > Mark Fletcher composed on 2016-06-05 11:40 (UTC): > > >I think both these options have one potential pitfall, which is file > >ownership after the copy over of stuff I want to salvage from the outgoing > >HDD. If I do a fresh install,

Re: Advice sought re HDD --> SSD migration

2016-06-05 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Jun 05, 2016 at 01:13:18PM +, Mark Fletcher wrote: > On Sun, Jun 5, 2016 at 9:31 PM Felix Miata wrote: > > > > Before you start, print /etc/passwd and /etc/group. :-) [...] > /etc/passwd and /etc/group are still

Re: Advice sought re HDD --> SSD migration

2016-06-05 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Sun, Jun 5, 2016 at 9:31 PM Felix Miata wrote: > Before you start, print /etc/passwd and /etc/group. :-) > > When forced to create a user during installation, I create user x with > passwd > x, and the first thing I do on first boot is login as root and delete user >

Re: Advice sought re HDD --> SSD migration

2016-06-05 Thread Felix Miata
Mark Fletcher composed on 2016-06-05 11:40 (UTC): I think both these options have one potential pitfall, which is file ownership after the copy over of stuff I want to salvage from the outgoing HDD. If I do a fresh install, no guarantee that user IDs will be the same on the new system as I of

Re: Advice sought re HDD --> SSD migration

2016-06-05 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Sun, Jun 5, 2016 at 5:34 AM David Christensen wrote: > On 06/04/2016 04:11 AM, Mark Fletcher wrote: > > I assume you've implemented backup, restore, imaging, archiving, etc.. > > > dd'ing the 500 GB onto the second SSD should work. > > > But, if it were my box: > >

Re: Advice sought re HDD --> SSD migration

2016-06-04 Thread David Christensen
On 06/04/2016 04:11 AM, Mark Fletcher wrote: I've recently decided to upgrade my main PC, running Debian Jessie, to use SSDs instead of HDDs. ... The machine is a self-built circa 2009 machine with an Intel Core i7-920 processor, 24GB of RAM ... 1 500GB disk which contained the whole filesystem

Re: Advice sought re HDD --> SSD migration

2016-06-04 Thread Stefan Monnier
> 'dd' will at best get you a 500GB disk on your new 900G SSD. Not at all. You can easily use the remaining space afterwards. As for me, I indeed wouldn't use `dd` in your case. Because instead, I'd move to LVM. I.e. setup an LVM volume group on your new disk, and create logical volumes for /

Re: Advice sought re HDD --> SSD migration

2016-06-04 Thread Dan Purgert
Mark Fletcher wrote: > --001a114056c6ba860d053471e7cb > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > Hi > > I've recently decided to upgrade my main PC, running Debian Jessie, to use > SSDs instead of HDDs. Right now I am halfway through the process, having > done what I consider the easy part, and

Advice sought re HDD --> SSD migration

2016-06-04 Thread Mark Fletcher
Hi I've recently decided to upgrade my main PC, running Debian Jessie, to use SSDs instead of HDDs. Right now I am halfway through the process, having done what I consider the easy part, and about to start the potentially more difficult part. The machine is a self-built circa 2009 machine with