[kromix]

I finally just finished customizing my XBMC install exactly how I want it, and I did it on a PC with a 7200RPM HD, I'm going to be getting an SSD and want to swap the SSD and have a seemless cutover whats the best tool for the job? I'm running the latest ver of XBMCBuntu

[pumkinut]

You can clone the drive in a couple of ways. There are some USB/CD Live installs like Clonzilla that will allow you to clone your drive. You can also do it from within XBMCBuntu if you drop to a shell (Alt+CTRL+<F1-F6>) and use dd to copy from one disk to another.

Code:

dd if=/dev/sd<x> of=/dev/sd<y>

Where x is the drive you're cloning from (the input file) and y is the drive you're cloning to (the output file).

If just two hard drives are attached, your 7200rpm spinning disk and your SSD, it will probably be:

Code:

dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb

But, you'll definitely want to verify before issuing the command to avoid copying the black drive to the one in use. You can do that with a simple sudo fdisk -l. That will list all drives that the OS can see, and their overall size and any partitions.