HD to SSD question.

[Roberto Ragusa]

On 08/21/2013 05:13 AM, Gregory Hosler wrote:

> If a mounted partition is being copied, then the result (destination) is that mounted partition. As boot time, it will need to be fsck. Any open files will be in whatever state they were in when they were copied. Hence, all files should be closed.

Copying mounted partitions with dd is dangerous.
But if unmounting is really impossible (e.g. it is the partition containing
the running system), a good trick is remounting it read-only.

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