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#1 2012-02-13 14:39:56

jlacroix
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[SOLVED] Question About Downgrading to a Spinning Drive from SSD

I currently have a laptop with an SSD and Arch Linux, and it's aligned specifically for SSD and configured as such. I ordered a brand new laptop, and decided that I will move the SSD from my current laptop to my new one, and put a spinning drive in my current laptop. I was thinking about using Clonezilla to clone my current Arch install on my current laptop SSD to a spinning drive (since I can't afford another SSD right now). However, since my current laptop installation is aligned for an SSD, will that cause problems if I clone it to a spinning drive? My spare spinning hard drives were made before the 4k transition, I believe. I would be putting it on an older 500GB Seagate. I'd rather not start over with a new configuration if I don't have to.

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#2 2012-02-13 19:16:27

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Re: [SOLVED] Question About Downgrading to a Spinning Drive from SSD

No need... Partition the new drive and just.use raync to transfer.  Clonezilla is overkill IMO.


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#3 2012-02-13 19:28:39

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Re: [SOLVED] Question About Downgrading to a Spinning Drive from SSD

Sounds like a good oppurtunity to switch to LVM!

But, like graysky said, there's nothing to worry about.  The only way you would run into problems is if you tried to use dd.


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#4 2012-02-13 20:34:46

jlacroix
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Re: [SOLVED] Question About Downgrading to a Spinning Drive from SSD

graysky wrote:

No need... Partition the new drive and just.use raync to transfer.  Clonezilla is overkill IMO.

The thing is, I'm very familiar with Clonezilla, I use it quite often. I'm not familiar with raync.

alphaniner wrote:

Sounds like a good oppurtunity to switch to LVM!

But, like graysky said, there's nothing to worry about.  The only way you would run into problems is if you tried to use dd.

I think that's what Clonezilla uses, isn't it?

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#5 2012-02-13 20:43:44

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Re: [SOLVED] Question About Downgrading to a Spinning Drive from SSD

1) Partition the drive to you liking
2) Mount the partitions one at a time
3)

rsync -avxP /path/to/source/ /path/to/target/

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#6 2012-02-14 03:03:57

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Re: [SOLVED] Question About Downgrading to a Spinning Drive from SSD

graysky wrote:

1) Partition the drive to you liking
2) Mount the partitions one at a time
3)

rsync -avxP /path/to/source/ /path/to/target/

Thanks, but for whatever reason that didn't work. I just cloned it with Acronis, which isn't ideal but it will probably last me until I can buy an SSD for this machine. Thanks though!

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