On Wed August 20 2025 17:23:21 dep via tde-users wrote: > My SSD for the ThinkPad arrived, so I pulled the drive from the machine and > using a separate machine to dd the contents of the existing drive onto the > new one. It being a 1-tb drive on both ends, it took a few hours. dd > reported success. Different drives of the "same" size can actually be slightly different sizes. I use dd to zero a partition or to put an ISO onto a thumb drive but otherwise I always use rsync which is like cp -av but I find it thinks more like I do even when only copying locally. > I put the new SSD into the machine and booted it. I was happy to see it > booted readily. I was less happy to see what happened next. > > I got to the nice graphical login window. I typed in my password. Screen > went black with a mouse pointer, then after a few seconds returned to the > login screen. Damn, I thought. So I shut down and reinstalled the original > drive. > > And guess what? *Same thing*! Perfectly working installation has now lost > the contents of its /home partition. Only thing there is /lost+found. This > on the original drive, which dd shouldn't have touched at all. Back around 1982 a sysadmin mistyped one letter of a disk to disk backup command on a VAX and us programmers had very little we could do for the next several days while the system was rebuilt from mag tape. > To say I am at a loss is an understatement. Everything else seems to work. ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
