[Swiper the Fox]

So, I currently have 1 physical drive in my XBMCBuntu computer
I would like to clone this entire disk to a 32 or 64 Gig Solid State disk cause I have a few extras lying around and its
much faster booting up with SSD drives
now, I am not a Linux guru nor do I run any Linux OS's separately

Is there a way to clone current xbmcbuntu disk to another disk on a Windows computer and if so, with what program ?

Thanks

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sorry, not sure which section this would get best response from
pls move to appropriate forum if needed
thanks

[ursli]

If you've got an usb stick floating around your household it's quite straight forward to boot lubuntu from the stick, clone the disk and then restore it on your new one.

There are tools that automate the bootable usb stick business for you, take a look at http://www.linuxliveusb.com/ or http://www.pendrivelinux.com/universal-u...-as-1-2-3/

Then it's just a question of booting the stick, installing fsarchiver and cloning your disk.

Once you've booted in lubuntu (taking lubuntu because thats what xbmcbuntu is based on so you should be familiar with the looks):

Install fsarchiver

Code:

sudo apt-get install fsarchiver

Clone your disk, quickstart guide here: http://www.fsarchiver.org/QuickStart

Here is how it looks on my dualcore (-j2) saving the backup to an external usb disk, usually your primary harddisk is /dev/sda1 you might want to doublecheck with gparted

Code:

sudo fsarchiver -v -j2 -o savefs /media/lubuntu/External/backup/xbmc.fsa /dev/sda1

Once thats done rip out the old disk, put in the new one, use gparted to create your new partition and restore from your fsa backup.

Code:

sudo fsarchiver -v restfs /media/lubuntu/External/backup/xbmc.fsa id=0,dest=/dev/sda1

[Swiper the Fox]

thx for the info
i'll give it the old college try ! ! ! !

[un1versal]

You will probably have to add delays to your lightdm configuration, because the boot speed you gain means that things start to get mounted before networking service is up and the likes, so overall, you dont gain that much.

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Also enable trim support....