I have a Lenovo T530 i5 that I purchased last fall with 4GB ram and a 500GB 7200rpm hard drive, with the intention of upgrading it to 16GB and an 256gb SSD when time/funds allowed. That time is now.
The machine is currently multi-boot Windows 7 Pro, Ubuntu 12.10, openSuSE 12.2 and Linux Mint 14. After a lot of initial fussing around, the latter two get used very little if at all, so I will probably be going to just a dual-boot config. The hard drive is split up with approx. 100GB for Win7, 20GB for each of the Linux distros, 15GB for the Windows recovery partition, 5GB for swap, and the remainder accessible under /srv/data in the various distros.
When I initially got this machine, the very first thing I did was use clonezilla to image the HDD and store it to a NAS. As I finished doing the various updates, partitioning, more updates, installing other distros, etc. I continued to do periodic images with clonezilla, so I have a pretty good set of backup images that I can go back to for restoration if need be. The user /home directory is backed up using duplicity (Deja Backup) under Ubuntu, also to the NAS.
What I want to end up with is the SSD as the primary drive, with the Windows system and recover partitions, and Linux partitions as necessary in the remainder, using LVM. The current HDD will be re-purposed and mounted in a caddy in the optical bay under /srv, probably formatted NTFS so its accessible under both Win7 and Linux.
I was thinking of taking another run with clonezilla and imaging the Win7 install, the Ubuntu install, and the /srv/data partition to the NAS one final time. After that... install the new SSD, restore the necessary partitions to it via clonezilla to get Win7 running again, and then re-install Ubuntu from scratch in the remaining space, and restore /home/$user from the NAS using duplicity. The major fly in the ointment here is getting the linux install back to its previous state, as far as installed programs, PPAs, etc.
What I'm after here is any suggestions as to any glaring faults with the above schema, and ideas on how to get from where I am to where I want to be when all the bits get here.
Thanks,
Monte
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