moving Kubuntu to a new drive

[borissh1983 at gmail.com]

On Wednesday, 1 May 2019 7:29:37 IDT Shlomo Solomon wrote:
> The subject says it all. But a few more details. My 1Tb drive is
> about to die and I'm moving to a new 3Tb drive. The drive
> (/dev/sda) includes 5 partitions -  / ,  /home ,  /boot/efi , /data  ,
> swap.  Most of the bad blocks seem to be in the /data partition.
> Needless to say, I have good backups of everything on an external
> drive.
> 
> There are many ways to do this and I'm not looking for instructions,
> but "opinions" about what would be most efficient. I've considered a
> few options - but each seem to have advantages and dis-advantages:
> 
> 1 - A fresh install and then update configurations and copy whatever
> else I need from the old drive or from my backup drive. (Advantage - get
> rid of old junk, Dis-advantage - seems like a lot of work)
> 
> 2 - dd - and then, of course enlarge the partitions and/or add new
> partitions to use the added 2Tb. (Advantage - safe, Dis-advantage -
> there are many bad blocks on the old drive so ...)

Opinon Against DDing into a new disk, I had done that and apperntly that 
shorten the life of some SSDs (dd on disk level and not partiton level). 

In addition  - 
I also had witnessed several (HDD) disks die when they had been connected over 
SATA to USB.  beware of the cheap adaptors.