From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 30 16:24:56 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 A830E106566B for ; Tue, 30 Mar 2010 16:24:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: from mail-yw0-f171.google.com (mail-yw0-f171.google.com [209.85.211.171]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62E968FC14 for ; Tue, 30 Mar 2010 16:24:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywh1 with SMTP id 1so6047676ywh.3 for ; Tue, 30 Mar 2010 09:24:55 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:received:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=5oxZBW7ATeEfAK/c8LDofNZNSHvLc7gOc9rCPtY8moQ=; b=t9zlglI7smBRDKveGS/XapdkWL3a4IgAAU/ud/0mWNwxbBkEcYPlEIWHTOafpjPbjg 0pMy3TAcfPITJtGAXO11hiU4qb77GRk6XQVtjASeQGvqeNp7KpXqAf5Rea/0no8WP/Ox hANhadhBODQipFfb45jVUk4oF3CnL+hch2phA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=tYfweCUsnvq+qUv1GZPbDLeCLHOkP+vu9QSjRNTRI4HRMdZfewqpr2FXKnSqFDF87Z PXuGFrhHPtwOqC9Ayl79LKT/4Vif0H/+vvzjoepcoXs3kwIuHtPQRdDGj3f9kTQ5nL7B wlV+NeTlriu6MMGMRej0/2un1v+j3L5L47FZo= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.90.84.19 with HTTP; Tue, 30 Mar 2010 09:24:55 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20100330161125.GA10813@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> References: <4BB21D20.4080000@kukulies.org> <20100330161125.GA10813@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 12:24:55 -0400 Received: by 10.90.1.26 with SMTP id 26mr2149439aga.22.1269966295501; Tue, 30 Mar 2010 09:24:55 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: From: "illoai@gmail.com" To: Jerry McAllister Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: Christoph Kukulies , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 16:24:56 -0000 On 30 March 2010 12:11, Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 05:47:44PM +0200, Christoph Kukulies wrote: > >> 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 SDnow= V+ >> 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). > > Well, this could possibly work, but I wonder why you want to do it > this way. =A0 =A0I would be inclined to divide the disk as desired, do > the MSW install in the first slice and then get a FeeBSD fixit and > partition the other slice and then use dump/restore to move the FreeBSD > stuff over. =A0 That way you get the best fit for the new disk, no > worries about tweaking geometry and no loss of the amount the new > drive is bigger than the old one. > > ////jerry > Or even a middle path of creating the slices, making sure that the windows-to-be slice is exactly close enough, dd-ing the windows slice over (testing that it boots), and then running the dump/restore cycle for the freebsd portion of the drive. --=20 --