Originally Posted By: Shonky
Originally Posted By: eagle
BTW, I currently have a 40GB HDD in the empeg, could I just attach both the old HDD and the new 64GB SSD directly to a PC (with 2.5"->3.5" IDE adapters) and then 'dd' the content over under linux?
Does the empeg use ext2 so I can just resize the filesystem afterwards to make full use of the 64GB?
I know this works for normal Linux partitions as I have done this a few times when upgrading HDDs in Linux boxes, but will it work for the empeg too?

Yep. Should work just fine. Just add all the space to the largest existing partition (i.e. where the music goes)


I did the following procedure now:

- removed old 40GB HDD from empeg and connected it to my Linux PC using a USB-HDD enclosure

- cat /dev/sde > empeg40gb.img

- replaced the 40GB HDD with the new 64GB SSD in the USB-HDD enclosure

- cat empeg40gb.img > /dev/sde

- resize2fs /dev/sde4

- placed the 64GB SSD into the empeg in place of the old 40GB HDD

- powered on the empeg, and everything worked fine as expected!!
all songs are still there and boot from cold power-on now takes 7 seconds (not sure how much it took before but it was longer)

here is the fdisk -l output before and after:

Code:
Disk /dev/sde: 40.0 GB, 40007761920 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4864 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sde1               1           5       40131    5  Extended
/dev/sde2               6          10       40162+  83  Linux
/dev/sde3              11          13       24097+  10  OPUS
/dev/sde4              14        4864    38965657+  83  Linux
/dev/sde5               1           3       24034+  83  Linux
/dev/sde6               4           5       16033+  82  Linux swap / Solaris



Disk /dev/sde: 64.0 GB, 64038633472 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7785 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sde1               1           5       40131    5  Extended
/dev/sde2               6          10       40162+  83  Linux
/dev/sde3              11          13       24097+  10  OPUS
/dev/sde4              14        7785    62428590   83  Linux
/dev/sde5               1           3       24034+  83  Linux
/dev/sde6               4           5       16033+  82  Linux swap / Solaris


Fantastic, now I just need to update my signature! grin
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MK1 Empeg - 64GB Transcend SSD (TS64GSSD25-M),
Kenwood KDC-MP6090R (Radio+MP3-CD+Aux In),
Frontier Labs NEX II - 4GB Flash (SanDisk Ultra II),
Frontier Labs NEX IIe - 1GB IBM Microdrive,
Frontier Labs NEX 3 - 1GB SD (SanDisk Ultra II+usb),
Frontier Labs NEX Ia+ - 4GB Flash (owned by wife),
Frontier Labs NEXBlack - will get a 32GB CF card soon \:\)