From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 30 17:23:20 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 1E53B1065675 for ; Tue, 30 Mar 2010 17:23:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk) Received: from relay.ptn-ipout01.plus.net (relay.ptn-ipout01.plus.net [212.159.7.35]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFE428FC16 for ; Tue, 30 Mar 2010 17:23:19 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AvUFABbQsUvUnw4S/2dsb2JhbACPPotwccBLhQAE Received: from pih-relay05.plus.net ([212.159.14.18]) by relay.ptn-ipout01.plus.net with ESMTP; 30 Mar 2010 18:23:18 +0100 Received: from [84.92.153.232] (helo=curlew.milibyte.co.uk) by pih-relay05.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1Nwf9p-0007DA-I5; Tue, 30 Mar 2010 18:23:17 +0100 Received: by curlew.milibyte.co.uk with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Nwf9p-0000Xy-8g; Tue, 30 Mar 2010 18:23:17 +0100 From: Mike Clarke To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 18:23:17 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <4BB21D20.4080000@kukulies.org> In-Reply-To: <4BB21D20.4080000@kukulies.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <201003301823.17193.jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on curlew.milibyte.co.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false X-Plusnet-Relay: b8c291a54c7a8d1f738b6b6635e53210 Cc: Christoph Kukulies 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 17:23:20 -0000 On Tuesday 30 March 2010, Christoph Kukulies wrote: > 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. Having created problems for myself by doing something similar in the past I'd be wary of using dd for this, will take you to Google Groups for the relevant thread in comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc. The safe approach would be to use fdisk to create the desired slices on the new disk, use bsdlabel to partition the FreeBSD slice and then use dump|restore to copy the data. You should be able to copy your Windows partition with DriveImage XML, free for private use from -- Mike Clarke