On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 2:09 PM, Linuxguy123 <linuxguy123(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 09:35 +0100, John Austin wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 02:06 -0600, Linuxguy123 wrote:
> > I'm moving /, /boot and swap from a conventional hard drive to an SSD.
> >
> > Both drives are 160 GB in size.
> >
> >
> I have tried a couple of methods successfully, here are my "hints" files
>
> I liked the fsarchiver method as I could save an "image file" containing a
complete
> replica of "/", it was only 8.5GB when compressed in my case
> 35mins to save the file, 20 mins to restore
> Maybe of some help
>
> John
I found the easiest way to do this was to download a copy of Ubuntu 10.4
and use gparted. It has a function to copy a partition from the source
drive to the destination drive. Then I resized them. It was a bit
slow and tedius, but it also worked flawlessly. Sometimes no excitement
is good.
The Clonezilla and Parted Magic distros have all the tools that you need.