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
> >
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
>
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
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
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
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,
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
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,
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On Sun, Jun 05, 2016 at 01:13:18PM +, Mark Fletcher wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 5, 2016 at 9:31 PM Felix Miata wrote:
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> > Before you start, print /etc/passwd and /etc/group. :-)
[...]
> /etc/passwd and /etc/group are still
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
>
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
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:
>
>
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
> '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 /
Mark Fletcher wrote:
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> 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
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
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