#Linux clone hard drive to ssd mac os x#
#Linux clone hard drive to ssd software#

While most of us old fogeys are familiar with the BIOS-type firmware, the computer industry, as a whole, is heading towards the UEFI-type firmware. Basically there are two types of firmware: one is the old-style type BIOS (Basic Input/Output System) and the other is the new EFI or UEFI ((Unified) Extensible Firmware Interface).

#Linux clone hard drive to ssd software#

One more thing before we proceed to the disk cloning process and that concerns the firmware (the software used to control low-level tasks) on most modern motherboards. Note that, if done correctly, disk cloning can be done easily without have to mess around with the ‘/etc/fstab’ file in order to fix the UUID of the disk.

#Linux clone hard drive to ssd mac os x#

The beauty of this tool is that it can run on both the Windows OS as well as the Debian Linux OS – Mac OS X users may have to resort to using the ‘dd’ command from a terminal in order to create the USB boot drive. The main cloning tool used in this article is GParted (Gnome Partition Editor), and an auxiliary tool (called ‘tuxboot’) is only use at the beginning to create a GParted USB boot drive. The best part of the tools that was used in cloning the disks is that they are absolutely free – well, maybe the ISP charges are not, because you have to download them from websites. If you can afford it, you can also use this guide to clone to a larger SSD. You have to decide whether this trade-off is a worthwhile effort in cloning disks. The less-costlier mechanical HDD has more space, but is much slower than a SSD. The simple reason for doing this is ‘space’ – a smaller SSD (which currently is costly), although much faster than a mechanical HDD, has a space limitation. I do most of my experiments on a small capacity SSD after which, when I complete my experiments and I wish to preserve the result, I normally clone the SSD to a much larger HDD, then wipe the SSD clean and start a new experiment on it.īasically this document is all about cloning a smaller disk to a larger one. I agreed with my colleague – the resulting document is what you are reading now. A colleague of mine observed this cloning process and suggested that I document this on the Web so that other users may follow it if they want to carry out a similar move.

Recently, during a series of experiments which involved a 500 GB SSD (Solid State Drives) and Debian Linux, I had to physically clone the SSD to a larger mechanical 1 TB HDD. I am a ‘dyed-in-the-wool’ computer enthusiast and love to experiment with computers – both hardware and software.