On 18.08.2013 22:57, Erik P. Olsen wrote: > I plan to swap the HD on my laptop with an SSD of same size. Will it > work OK if I dd the HD to an external HD, swap the HD with the SSD and > dd the contents back to the SSD? I believe I can use knoppix to the > process. >
If I were you I'd go with fresh partition and new filesystem. Now, it's a good time to optimize your filesystem, maybe fix some broken metadata and i-nodes. You don't copy all that garbage. If you simply use dd, you also preserve potential errors present on your current fs. Mateusz Marzantowicz -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
