[mdlug] Adding SSD to existing system

[Robert Citek]

I have, but not as a dual boot.

Short version:
- reboot system with a live CD
- shrink everything down on the original disk to the size needed to
fit on the SSD drive
- dd everything from the HDD to SSD  (e.g. dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb)
- power off, remove HDD, and reboot system

This worked for me because I use UUIDs in grub and /etc/fstab.  Once I
confirmed everything worked on the SSD, I repartitioned the HDD and am
using it for extra storage.

In theory that process should work even if it is a multi-boot system.
Although, I'm not sure how Windows would handle the change in
hardware.

Regards,
- Robert

On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 11:03 AM, Ingles, Raymond
<Raymond.Ingles at compuware.com> wrote:
> Saved up birthday and Christmas money, and picked up a 256MB SSD drive. I'm planning to add it to my desktop, and move the operating systems onto it. I have both Windows 7 and Ubuntu 13.04 on it, spread over a few partitions on three separate 1TB drives. (I'm afraid I'm a little old-school and haven't gotten with the volume-management bandwagon yet.)
>
> My Linux root partition (which includes /usr) is only using about 10.5 GB. I think I can get my Windows OS partition down to 150MB or so. So I should be able to make a 50GB partition for Linux, give the rest to Windows, and have a machine that boots up substantially faster.
>
> Has anyone done things like this before? Any tips or warnings I should be aware of?
>
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