| Steve Litt on 11 Mar 2016 10:54:04 -0800 |
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| Re: [PLUG] Convert from Hard Drive to SSD |
On Thu, 10 Mar 2016 19:22:57 -0500 Casey Bralla <MailList@nerdworld.org> wrote: > I recently bought an SSD and want to clone my existing Hard Drive > onto the SSD, ideally without mucking up the existing Gentoo desktop > system. > > I would use clonezilla or even dd, but my SSD is only 240 GBytes, > while the Hard Drive is 1 TByte. These programs require that the new > disk be at least as large as the original. I was under the impression that Clonezilla copies only files, not blank space, so you *could* use Clonezilla. You don't state whether this disk is your boot drive. Makes a big difference, as you need to do more steps if it's a boot drive. SteveT Steve Litt March 2016 featured book: Quit Joblessness: Start Your Own Business http://www.troubleshooters.com/startbiz ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug