said Michael:
| On Friday 13 August 2021 09:28:14 am dep wrote:
| > Ubuntu in its wisdom has screwed around with the
|
| That's your first mistake ;) . Don't use Ubuntu. Might I suggest MX
| Linux :) Their Live USB works flawlessly...
|
| > Now, this is especially problematic because the hard drive boot is, as
| > I mentioned, from /dev/sda1, while /home is /dev/sda3, so just yanking
| > that drive is not among the relatively convenient possibilities.
| >
| > Any ideas? Prefarably as opposed to guesses?
|
| Known to work:
|
| - Yank everthing but the new SSD
| - Boot from the SSD to a command shell *
| - Update grub
| - [Optional] Personally I'd remove grub from every other drive
| - Put the rest back
| - [Optional] Use UUIDs in fstab and crypttab
Thanks very much, though you left out "burn down your house and everything
you own and use the computer at the library," but I'll forgive that
because your other suggestions were so . . . comprehensive.
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