How to move Ubuntu to an SSD

Posted by Bart van Heukelom on Ask Ubuntu See other posts from Ask Ubuntu or by Bart van Heukelom
Published on 2011-05-05T14:37:16Z Indexed on 2012/11/12 17:22 UTC
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My current situation is:

  • One hard disk
  • Dual boot Ubuntu 11.04 and Windows 7. Partitions:
    • 100MB Windows System thingy
    • 144GB Main Windows
    • 160GB Ubuntu
    • 4GB Swap
    • 12GB System Restore stuff

Now I want to install an 80GB SSD and move Ubuntu to it. AFAIK I need to:

  • Shrink the 160GB Ubuntu partition to 80GB
  • Copy it over to the SSD
  • Change fstab to mount the SSD as /

How do I do the second? And what do I need to do about Grub?

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