Migrate to SSD

2014-01-02 Thread Laurence Rochfort
Hello, I want to migrate my current OpenBSD 5.4 installation to an SSD, which is slightly larger than my present rotational drive. What are people's suggestions for doing this? I was thinking of DDing and increasing the size of /home and /usr/local, but surely there's a better way? Also, are the

Re: Migrate to SSD

2014-01-02 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2014-01-02, Laurence Rochfort wrote: > Hello, > > I want to migrate my current OpenBSD 5.4 installation to an SSD, which is > slightly larger than my present rotational drive. > > What are people's suggestions for doing this? I was thinking of DDing and > increasing the size of /home and /usr/l

Re: Migrate to SSD

2014-01-02 Thread Gregory Edigarov
On 01/02/2014 11:24 AM, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2014-01-02, Laurence Rochfort wrote: Hello, I want to migrate my current OpenBSD 5.4 installation to an SSD, which is slightly larger than my present rotational drive. What are people's suggestions for doing this? I was thinking of DDing and

Re: Migrate to SSD

2014-01-02 Thread Josh Grosse
On 2014-01-02 06:54, Gregory Edigarov wrote: but dump and restore on per filesystem basis would suffice There's one additional step, which is to use installboot(8) or disklabel(8) -B to install bootblocks.

Re: Migrate to SSD

2014-01-02 Thread Jan Stary
On Jan 02 09:41:14, laurence.rochf...@gmail.com wrote: > Hello, > > I want to migrate my current OpenBSD 5.4 installation to an SSD, which is > slightly larger than my present rotational drive. > > What are people's suggestions for doing this? I was thinking of DDing and > increasing the size of

Re: Migrate to SSD

2014-01-02 Thread Evan Root
Check out softdep as a fstab parameter. It is equally useful for regular spinning disks but it seems like you may not know about Soft updates. Evan Root, CCNA On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 8:27 AM, Jan Stary wrote: > On Jan 02 09:41:14, laurence.rochf...@gmail.com wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I want to

Re: Migrate to SSD

2014-01-02 Thread Chris Cappuccio
Stuart Henderson [s...@spacehopper.org] wrote: > > > Also, are there any /etc/fstab options recommended for SSDs? > > No need to fiddle, the defaults are fine. Perhaps a 'noatime' for SSD paritions if you want to keep more blocks clean for longer period of time.