Will this work: copy ubuntu from HDD to SSD

[pir]

If I buy an SSD (OCZ Vertex 2 OCZSSD2-2VTXE60G 60GB), will this work?

Power off PC, place SSD Power on PC (which (only) has Ubuntu installed on it) Format the SSD (through Disk utility?) Clone my working disk to the ssd (via ddrescue) Change GRUB to start from SSD


I think it should work. What do you think? :)

[ajgreeny]

There will be a few other things to edit in order to get the SSD to boot at all, such as /etc/fstab. By default this file now uses UUIDs and not /dev/sda etc, so the old UUID will now be incorrect, as I don't think that will be copied across with the ddrescue. There may be other things as well, but I can't think of any at the moment.

Give it a try; if it does not work not a lot is lost except some time. Backup everything first, just in case.

[pir]

Cool. So you think I should edit /etc/fstab. I might also have to change the bootloaders' startup HDD...

[tommcd]

To make this easy you may want to try the Clonezilla live CD. This is what Clonezilla is for:
http://clonezilla.org/
http://clonezilla.org/clonezilla-live/
Clonezilla live CD should allow you to clone your HDD to the SDD.

[slakkie]

There will be a few other things to edit in order to get the SSD to boot at all, such as /etc/fstab. By default this file now uses UUIDs and not /dev/sda etc, so the old UUID will now be incorrect, as I don't think that will be copied across with the ddrescue. There may be other things as well, but I can't think of any at the moment.

Give it a try; if it does not work not a lot is lost except some time. Backup everything first, just in case.


You can still use the old notation though, but changing the fstab is required, whatever notation is used.