[GTALUG] Swapping ThinkPad drive

[William Park]

For /, /home, ... it's simple copy.  Since you're using external USB, 
don't use "dd".  "cp -a" should be good enough.  Or, "tar -cf -".
Never used "cpio".

For /boot, it's different can of worm.  You can copy over the content, 
but you have to update /boot/efi/EFI/DistroX/, so that your motherboard 
"BIOS" knows about it.  I'd recommend, install your distro on the new 
SSD using UEFI.  Then, update files for your old kernel.  That way, the 
structure is created for you.

Personally, I don't like UEFI.  If you change motherboard, you can't 
boot.  Personal experience!

On 11/24/21 11:32 AM, James Knott via talk wrote:
> I've bought a 1 TB SSD drive to replace the 750 GB drive in my 
> ThinkPad.  I was considering using the opportunity to change to UEFI. 
> I'll be mounting the old drive in an external case so that I can copy 
> over the partitions, one of them NTFS.  Anything I should worry about in 
> converting to UEFI?  Any suggestions?
> 
> tnx jk
> 
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