Everyone:
If you have followed my threads about:
SMB failing with F27
and
system hanging and requring repeated restarts,
then you've seen people suggest replacing my 1 TB HDD with an SSD. I
acquired a 1 TB SSD and then tried to clone the HDD to the SSD. The
clone /failed/. Reason: the disk is already showing some bad sectors.
The outputs of satactl and fsck make that undeniably clear.
On the advice of a professional installer, I have since acquired an
additional SSD (capacity 120 GB) and am now acquiring a mounting bracket
and some power and SATA data cables. I also downloaded the F27 KDE
Plasma 5 Spin as an ".iso" image.
My plan is to install F27 "clean" on the two SSD's, mounting the 120 GB
SSD at root ("/") and the 1 TB SSD at /home. I must then migrate my
data, browser cookies (Google Chrome, Firefox), e-mail
accounts/saved/messages/other settings (Thunderbird), and documents,
pictures, music, videos, and various downloads from the HDD to the SSD.
This machine has 8 GB of memory on board.
I now ask the community for some suggestions.
First, for partitioning:
1. Should I even try to accept /automatic/ partitioning when the
installer gets to that point?
2. Is 120 GB large enough for the information on the other directories
besides /home?
3. Should I create a separate /boot partition on the smaller SSD, and if
so, how large should I make it?
4. How large should the swap partition be, and where should I put it?
(That is, on the 120 GB or the 1 TB drive)?
5. In general, should I place a partition for anything other than /home
on the 1 TB SSD?
Now, as regards data migration: I have three user accounts to migrate,
plus another directory on /home called "lost and found."
1. Should I even try to migrate "lost and found," and if so, how?
2. I have at least two choices for migrating data and settings from the
various user accounts--three for some of them.
a. Connect the HDD to the SATA bus /after/ installing F27, and then
force-copying everything out of each /home directory to its
corresponding directory on the new configuration. (What command(s) would
you recommend using, and with what options/switches/etc.?)
b. Connect a large external HDD through a USB interface, transfer
all the data to it before modifying the hardware, then re-transfer it to
the system after installing the SSD's and F27.
c. Migrate the data to its "temporary refuge" over a Samba network
(possibly do-able for at least one account, and that's the biggest
account) and then re-migrate to the new system?
Which choice would you recommend?
3. Is it worth migrating every single hidden file or folder? Or should I
select only those folders that I know contain customization, account, or
similar settings, plus my saved documents/pictures/music/videos, and
migrate those?
Thanks in advance.
Temlakos
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