[GTALUG] Back to basics: upgrading from Windows to Linux

[D. Hugh Redelmeier]

| From: Kevin Cozens via talk <talk at gtalug.org>

| I have just used dd run under Linux when I have cloned drives in the past.
| YMMV.

Two problems I can imagine:

- the two disks will have partitions with identical UUIDs.  This isn't
  a good idea.  The symptoms might be subtle.

- if the geometry is different you might get a bad result.

  I generally find that disk sectors are 4k these days but 512 bytes on
  a USB disk.  I don't know what an NVMe SSD presents as its
  blocksize.  It might well be that Evan's USB thingee preserves the
  blocksize of the SSD.  I don't know.