HD to SSD question.

[Mateusz Marzantowicz]

On 18.08.2013 22:57, Erik P. Olsen wrote:
> I plan to swap the HD on my laptop with an SSD of same size. Will it
> work OK if I dd the HD to an external HD, swap the HD with the SSD and
> dd the contents back to the SSD? I believe I can use knoppix to the
> process.
> 

If I were you I'd go with fresh partition and new filesystem. Now, it's
a good time to optimize your filesystem, maybe fix some broken metadata
and i-nodes. You don't copy all that garbage. If you simply use dd, you
also preserve potential errors present on your current fs.


Mateusz Marzantowicz