Anything special to do moving to SSD?

[Warren Block]

On Wed, 15 Jun 2016, Manish Jain wrote:

>> Provided the existing filesystems will fit on the SSD a migrate in
>> place is quite easy. I have done this quite recently based on the
>> excellent write up here
>> http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/ssd.html - don't treat it as
>> a step-by-step adapt it to your setup (not hard).
>>
>
> I am bothered by this thought. Let's say my old SATA disk is da0 and I
> attach the SSD as da1 for copying the filesystem via dump+restore. Next
> I remove the SATA entirely and reboot. Now will the SSD still be da1 ?
> If not, then I have no way of knowing how to configure /etc/fstab for
> the SSD.

Use GPT labels.  Or UFS filesystem labels:
http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/labels.html

Even on single-disk systems, labels make it easier to deal with 
partitions.

> Incidentally, I don't know whether this is relevant - my system will be
> a dual boot PC, with Win XP as secondary OS. I think that means that I
> cannot use GPT and I will have to use MBR for partitioning. Am I right
> about that ?

Yes.  But unless you have a strong requirement to run XP on bare 
hardware (like for games), install VirtualBox and run it as a VM.  That 
makes it easy to transplant elsewhere when the need arises.