SSDs and HDDs

[Colin Law]

On 18 February 2016 at 07:25, Ralf Mardorf <silver.bullet at zoho.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Feb 2016 08:12:33 +0100, I wrote:
>>On Wed, 17 Feb 2016 18:04:51 -0700, agents4jesus at gmail.com wrote:
>>>I want to put the OS and a few resource intensive programs (Android
>>>Studio, Blender, GIMP, etc) on the SSD
>>
>>You even could use an existing install, by simply copying
>>(sudo cp -pr old new) from an existing install to the new drive. You
>>just need to edit /etc/fstab and to correct the bootloader and you
>>need to care about the order of the devices by the BIOS settings.
>
> PS:
>
> For partitioning you could use GParted
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/GParted .
> You don't need to use the same partition sizes, you likely will
> increase /boot assumed it has got a default installer size. If you have
> everything on one partition, you even could copy the content
> of directories to separated partitions or vice versa copy several
> partitions to directories on one partition, you just need to edit
> fstab, https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Fstab .

No need to use gparted, nearly always the installer will make a
perfectly good job of the partitioning and setup fstab for you with
much less brain strain.

Colin