Upgrading system disk

[old_dog]

My son has just given me his 60gb OCZ vertex SSD. I am currently running 12.04 also windows 7, on a 1tb hdd I know I know the wife likes W7. I am under the impression that if I put Ubuntu on the SSD it will go like the proverbial poo off a shovel!

I can see different ways of achieving this and I sure some of you out there have done it.

Any advice on the easiest, best method , pitfalls to avoid will be gratefully received....

point me in the right direction you kow you want to!

[dino99]

Some howto/feedback are around on google, like:

http://radu.cotescu.com/migrating-your-ubuntu-machine-to-a-ssd-drive/

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AA1/Using

https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+question/166162

and probably more and/or better if digging a bit.

):P

[oldfred]

With "only" 60GB it is a bit tight to try to dual boot on SSD, but may be possible if you really want to. I prefer to have each operating system on a separate drive, so when one drive fails I can boot the other. Data can be on the same or different drive, but I scatter data around on drives and try to backup often enough that if a drive fails I have most of it.

I have two copies of Ubuntu in my 60GB SSD, one current and one next version for testing. Windows should fit in 30GB if you have a separate shared NTFS data partition on the rotating drive for most of the data. I only have Ubuntu boot files & only the part of /home that is the user configuration in my SSD. All data is still on rotating drives. With .wine for Picasa my /home is about 2GB and my install on the SSD is 9GB total. My test install with only some of my usual stuff is only 7GB.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Solid_State_Drives

Splitting home directory discussion and details:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1811198
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1901437
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1734233&highlight=%2Fdata

[old_dog]

Thank you gentlemen, some interesting insights.

You know this is going to go one of two ways................
Pro) You won't hear from me again for some time.
Con) I will be on here umpteen times asking silly questions

Cheers

[oldfred]

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