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[Solved}Installing a SSD

SteveD

Fri Aug 29, 2014 3:19:43 am

I have my /home on a separate partition so installing the SSD wasn't just as simple as cloning the existing drive.

The way I did it was

1 Partitioned the new SSD with two partitions, one ext4 for / and one linux swap
2 Used Clonezilla to clone the existing / partition to the SSD leaving /home partition on my existing drive
3 Booted into a Live session and changed the boot and swap flags to the new SSD partitions
4 Deleted the original / and swap partitions
Used Boot Repair to sort out GRUB

Swarfendor437

Fri Aug 29, 2014 11:48:07 am

Hi Steve, I would like to move this to the How-to section if you are happy for me to do this - this part of the forum is for requesting help - solutions to be posted in the 'How-to and tutorial section'! :D

SteveD

Fri Aug 29, 2014 11:54:53 am

No problem let me just edit it :)