said Michael: | On Saturday 07 August 2021 03:00:48 pm dep wrote: | > I figure I'm gonna need all the luck I can get, | > in switching the boot drive to the SSD next week. | | S’Okay! That made this whole thing easy. | | Modify as needed for your OS and particular hardware setup: | | - Tarball /home (old-home) | - Partition & format SSD * | - Unpack (old-home) onto SSD | - Install a clean OS to the SSD, checking preserving /home That would for me be burning down the house and rebuilding it to get rid of some dust because there's no vacuum cleaner available. I'll dd the /boot partition onto the new SSD, which I'm told will preserve the UUID, and I'll label it Boot for fstab purposes, change the UUID for the old boot partition, add the SSD -- I'll dd over USB -- figure the niceties of running update-grub (though with the same UUID as the previous boot partition it oughta boot fine anyway, right?) and keep everything else where it is. I've *always* put ~/ on its own partition and now it will be on its own drive. So no need to tarball several terabytes of data. Anybody see where this might not work? The only place I see a possible problem is in when I update grub, the timing of which is always pretty ticklish with a new drive. If there's advice available on that, I'd be glad to hear it. -- dep Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album Column: https://ofb.biz/author/dep/ ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
