Hello All, I now have my SSD and have been trying to sort out how best to go about the business of moving my system to it. There is a lot of stuff on the web about this and I think I have some of it figured out, but none I have seen really fits what I want to do. Best to check before I bugger everything up. Firstly I am running Fedora 20 and my current disc is 500 GB formatted as /boot = 577 MB, / = 52 GB, swap = 8.4 GB, /home = 439 GB. My SSD is 256 GB. My thinking is that I would format the SSD as /boot = 500 MB, / = 50 GB, swap = 8 GB, and /home = 197 GB. After setting up the SSD as my boot disc I will transfer a number of folders from my current /home and leave the rest on the current disc which I would mount as /home/terry/disk2 (say). I should add I have a second 500 GB disc that I can use to hold stuff while reformatting my current 500 GB drive. So, the plan looks like this...(but some bits are not clear to me) install the SSD and partition (as above) as ext4 using gparted. Reboot with live distro and mount the 500 GB (spinning) disc and the SSD; sudo mkdir /media/src sudo mkdir /media/ssd sudo mount /dev/sda1 /media/src sudo mount /dev/sdd1 /media/ssd then copy src to ssd sudo rsync -ax /media/src/ /media/dest/ I think this will copy my /boot only, is that correct? If it is only /boot copied then I need to also... sudo mount /dev/sda2 /media/src sudo mount /dev/sdd2 /media/ssd then copy src to ssd sudo rsync -ax /media/src/ /media/dest/ to copy my / across. now I can unmount /media/src, and unmount /media/ssd I now need to get the UUID of the SSD drive (sudo /sbin/blkid) and mount the SSD partition where Fedora is now installed... sudo mount /dev/ssd2 /media/ssd (assuming /dev/ssd2 is my new /) open /media/ssd/etc/fstab and replace the UUIDs of old disc with the UUIDs of the SSD, and include the options noatime,discard also add tmpfs to fstab for some temp and logs tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults,noatime,mode=1777 0 0 tmpfs /var/tmp tmpfs defaults,noatime,mode=1777 0 0 tmpfs /var/log tmpfs defaults,noatime,mode=0755 0 0 Now to reinstall grub, after a reboot with live distro... Here it gets a bit murky for me, not quite sure what I should be doing. What I have read says mount /dev/sdd1 /mnt then proceeds to also mount /sys /proc /run /dev under /mnt, but this doesn't look right when my /dev/sdd1 is /boot Can someone please clear up my confusion and perhaps point me to some advice that better fits the partitioning scheme I want to end up with? Cheers, -- Regards, Terry Duell