Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 10:55:44 -0500 From: Peter Steele <psteele@maxiscale.com> To: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@kukulies.org>, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: dd cloning slightly different disks Message-ID: <7B9397B189EB6E46A5EE7B4C8A4BB7CB3B65F2F5@MBX03.exg5.exghost.com> In-Reply-To: <4BB21D20.4080000@kukulies.org> References: <4BB21D20.4080000@kukulies.org>
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Theoretically, doing a straight dd copy of one disk to another and then swa= pping in that disk should work. I've done it, with no other tweaking needed= . I've never done it with mixed OS instances on the same disk, or for that = matter with a solid state drive. You'll lose the trailing 12GB of your disk= , although you might be able to expand the last partition of whatever OS us= es it to include this lost space.... -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@f= reebsd.org] On Behalf Of Christoph Kukulies Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2010 8:48 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: dd cloning slightly different disks 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 fast= er. It's an Intel Core 2 Duo, 7400 CPU. The WD disk shows as having 976773168 sectors (500108 MB), the SSD has 1000= 215216 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 s= omehow, 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 sta= rting the big copy). -- Christoph _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman= /listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org= "
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