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Migrating Linux to a Smaller SSD

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Hello,

I wanted to create this topic and say thank you to True Image developers.

I recently got a new 128G SSD and moved my homeserver to it from my old 250G 2.5" drive. It was so easy to restore. It auto resized the root partition. All worked great, and my server is fully functional with my new SSD.

Yes, thank you guys. :)

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Just a small info for people who would need to do something similar. I will write what I did step by step.

1) Plugged old disk into my PC and took a full disk backup
2) Removed old disk and plugged SSD in.
3) Did a full disk recovery to SSD from old disk image. True Image did a partition resize for my root partition.
4) I had to change UUID in my /etc/fstab to fix some boot problems (but that was my fault, from the time when I installed my server)
5) All works perfectly.

My root partition was 230G before and I was using only 70G so when I got auto-resize my partition to 120G everything went fine. If your data is bigger than the possible biggest partition size I'm sure there will be problems. :)

Omur

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Hi Omur,
welcome to our forum and thank you for sharing you experiences!