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by yuhong 3465 days ago
The SSD as a boot drive will require an OS reinstall anyway though.
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anonbanker 3465 days ago
dd if=/dev/originaldevice of=/dev/newdevice

Unless the system is too old to contain new drivers, or you're switching from x86 to arm, you shouldn't have a problem. I've done this multiple times, including a gradual upgrade from Ubuntu 8.04 to 16.04.

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copperx 3465 days ago
Not really. I usually just image the boot drive.
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