From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 30 15:55:47 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 9F91B1065670 for ; Tue, 30 Mar 2010 15:55:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from psteele@maxiscale.com) Received: from server505.appriver.com (server505e.appriver.com [98.129.35.9]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 682548FC26 for ; Tue, 30 Mar 2010 15:55:47 +0000 (UTC) X-Policy: GLOBAL - maxiscale.com X-Policy: GLOBAL - maxiscale.com X-Primary: psteele@maxiscale.com X-Note: This Email was scanned by AppRiver SecureTide X-ALLOW: psteele@maxiscale.com ALLOWED X-Virus-Scan: V- X-Note: Spam Tests Failed: X-Country-Path: UNITED STATES->UNITED STATES->UNITED STATES X-Note-Sending-IP: 98.129.23.14 X-Note-Reverse-DNS: ht01.exg5.exghost.com X-Note-WHTLIST: psteele@maxiscale.com X-Note: User Rule Hits: X-Note: Global Rule Hits: G179 G180 G181 G182 G186 G187 G198 G285 X-Note: Encrypt Rule Hits: X-Note: Mail Class: ALLOWEDSENDER X-Note: Headers Injected Received: from [98.129.23.14] (HELO ht01.exg5.exghost.com) by server505.appriver.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.3.2) with ESMTPS id 30509727; Tue, 30 Mar 2010 10:55:46 -0500 Received: from mbx03.exg5.exghost.com ([169.254.1.132]) by ht01.exg5.exghost.com ([98.129.23.14]) with mapi; Tue, 30 Mar 2010 10:55:46 -0500 From: Peter Steele To: Christoph Kukulies , "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 10:55:44 -0500 Thread-Topic: dd cloning slightly different disks Thread-Index: AcrQIJR1KmVqPKSnQ92hwXTeq13RSQAAG2Ww Message-ID: <7B9397B189EB6E46A5EE7B4C8A4BB7CB3B65F2F5@MBX03.exg5.exghost.com> References: <4BB21D20.4080000@kukulies.org> In-Reply-To: <4BB21D20.4080000@kukulies.org> Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: acceptlanguage: en-US Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: Subject: RE: 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 15:55:47 -0000 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= "