Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 18:26:08 +0200 From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@kukulies.org> To: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dd cloning slightly different disks Message-ID: <4BB22620.4020900@kukulies.org> In-Reply-To: <20100330161125.GA10813@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> References: <4BB21D20.4080000@kukulies.org> <20100330161125.GA10813@gizmo.acns.msu.edu>
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Jerry McAllister schrieb: > 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 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). >> > > Well, this could possibly work, but I wonder why you want to do it > this way. I 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. 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. > Reason was: I wanted to preserve all settings (Windows XP and FreeBSD) and avoid any reinstallation of packages or sth. and wanted to continue working with a minimum of interruption. Maybe I could use the 12GB overspace either later by assigning it an extra partition or grow some partition that is adjacent to the free space. -- Christoph > ////jerry > > > >> -- >> 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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