On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 2:09 PM, Linuxguy123 <linuxguy123@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 09:35 +0100, John Austin wrote: >> On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 02:06 -0600, Linuxguy123 wrote: >> > I'm moving /, /boot and swap from a conventional hard drive to an SSD. >> > >> > Both drives are 160 GB in size. >> > >> > >> I have tried a couple of methods successfully, here are my "hints" files >> >> I liked the fsarchiver method as I could save an "image file" containing a complete >> replica of "/", it was only 8.5GB when compressed in my case >> 35mins to save the file, 20 mins to restore >> Maybe of some help >> >> John > > I found the easiest way to do this was to download a copy of Ubuntu 10.4 > and use gparted. It has a function to copy a partition from the source > drive to the destination drive. Then I resized them. It was a bit > slow and tedius, but it also worked flawlessly. Sometimes no excitement > is good. The Clonezilla and Parted Magic distros have all the tools that you need. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
