Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2016 20:16:53 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Manish Jain <bourne.identity@hotmail.com> Cc: "Steve O'Hara-Smith" <steve@sohara.org>, User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, "brandon.wandersee@gmail.com" <brandon.wandersee@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Anything special to do moving to SSD? Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.20.1606142010400.58507@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <VI1PR02MB0974C37334CBAD5D2AFA44ABF6550@VI1PR02MB0974.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com> References: <VI1PR02MB097476EA28325B53239D0E05F6540@VI1PR02MB0974.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com> <20160614191900.c70ccf60478738d0a8b0e44f@sohara.org> <VI1PR02MB0974C37334CBAD5D2AFA44ABF6550@VI1PR02MB0974.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com>
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On Wed, 15 Jun 2016, Manish Jain wrote: >> Provided the existing filesystems will fit on the SSD a migrate in >> place is quite easy. I have done this quite recently based on the >> excellent write up here >> http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/ssd.html - don't treat it as >> a step-by-step adapt it to your setup (not hard). >> > > I am bothered by this thought. Let's say my old SATA disk is da0 and I > attach the SSD as da1 for copying the filesystem via dump+restore. Next > I remove the SATA entirely and reboot. Now will the SSD still be da1 ? > If not, then I have no way of knowing how to configure /etc/fstab for > the SSD. Use GPT labels. Or UFS filesystem labels: http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/labels.html Even on single-disk systems, labels make it easier to deal with partitions. > Incidentally, I don't know whether this is relevant - my system will be > a dual boot PC, with Win XP as secondary OS. I think that means that I > cannot use GPT and I will have to use MBR for partitioning. Am I right > about that ? Yes. But unless you have a strong requirement to run XP on bare hardware (like for games), install VirtualBox and run it as a VM. That makes it easy to transplant elsewhere when the need arises.
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