From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 30 15:48:32 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22DA91065678 for ; Tue, 30 Mar 2010 15:48:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kuku@kukulies.org) Received: from werkwelt.de (post.werkwelt.de [91.194.85.74]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D5738FC1D for ; Tue, 30 Mar 2010 15:48:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [87.79.34.228] (account kuku@kukulies.org HELO [172.27.4.214]) by werkwelt.de (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0.13) with ESMTPSA id 6824875 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 30 Mar 2010 17:47:59 +0200 Message-ID: <4BB21D20.4080000@kukulies.org> Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 17:47:44 +0200 From: Christoph Kukulies User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows/20090812) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: dd cloning slightly different disks X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 15:48:32 -0000 Though not 100% FreeBSD centric, my question, I know that disk partitioning experts are around here. My noteook HD is a WD 5000BEVT, (500GB). Today I bought a Kingston SDnowV+ Solid State drive, 512GB, with the intention to make my notebook a bit faster. It's an Intel Core 2 Duo, 7400 CPU. The WD disk shows as having 976773168 sectors (500108 MB), the SSD has 1000215216 sectors (512110 MB). At the moment I'm copying (dd) from the WD internal disk to the SSD which I had put into an external SATA Icybox. I'm hoping to be able to use my FreeBSD and Windows partitions afterwards somehow, possibly with some geometry tweaking or what. Due to the different disk geometry I'm expecting that the partition table entries will be wrong. Any clues how I should proceed when the copy will be done in 7 hours or so? (20MB/s is the transfer rate I got from a short test that I did before starting the big copy). -- Christoph