From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Fri Aug 28 08:37:31 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F8929C497B for ; Fri, 28 Aug 2015 08:37:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:2001:8b0:151:1:3cd3:cd67:fafa:3d78]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk", Issuer "infracaninophile.co.uk" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 36481B00 for ; Fri, 28 Aug 2015 08:37:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from ox-dell39.ox.adestra.com (no-reverse-dns.metronet-uk.com [85.199.232.226] (may be forged)) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTPSA id t7S8bD2g008535 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Fri, 28 Aug 2015 09:37:21 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Authentication-Results: smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk; dmarc=none header.from=infracaninophile.co.uk DKIM-Filter: OpenDKIM Filter v2.10.3 smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk t7S8bD2g008535 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=infracaninophile.co.uk; s=201001-infracaninophile; t=1440751041; bh=Eclg9xcmaKU92oPorqd1Hn8XSHLN6kPj6RrWnNGV1uc=; h=Subject:To:References:From:Date:In-Reply-To; z=Subject:=20Re:=20Replacing=20Drive=20with=20SSD|To:=20freebsd-que stions@freebsd.org|References:=20|From:=20Matthew=20Seaman=20|Date:=20Fri,=2028=20Aug=202015=2009:37:02=20+0100|In-Rep ly-To:=20; b=REkVvsqRGGIq1S3Qye4NQEOMvpRisiiC+WJ9MBV4ONTkUWs36G4XLbac8WkdM5dkv OZpmgvlhDKxaj0Bni+XAe9hip7VA50CsG07k1S+NBHkpFMOjhcqMWgzLVicl/kNnV0 ytSONd2kW8xcOW4KxqsxeDRvT7xu2IdaOJgqdzxE= X-Authentication-Warning: lucid-nonsense.infracaninophile.co.uk: Host no-reverse-dns.metronet-uk.com [85.199.232.226] (may be forged) claimed to be ox-dell39.ox.adestra.com Subject: Re: Replacing Drive with SSD To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: From: Matthew Seaman X-Enigmail-Draft-Status: N1110 Message-ID: <55E01DAE.1020709@infracaninophile.co.uk> Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 09:37:02 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="j5dJLHCwXLaJNi84BnrUUq6OfVEdImQ9w" X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.98.7 at lucid-nonsense.infracaninophile.co.uk X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.5 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00, DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.1 (2015-04-28) on lucid-nonsense.infracaninophile.co.uk X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 08:37:31 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) --j5dJLHCwXLaJNi84BnrUUq6OfVEdImQ9w Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 08/28/15 07:59, Doug Hardie wrote: > I am having to replace a drive with a SSD. Normally if I were > replacing it with another drive, I would hook up the new drive to the > computer and just use dd to copy everything (system would be > quiescent). Can I do the same with a SSD or does it need to be setup > differently? This is a boot drive (i.e., the only drive in the > system). The system is currently working fine, but the drive temp is > starting to go up so I want to replace it before anything bad > happens. Yes, SSDs look just like spinning rust drives to the system. All the normal commands you'ld use to wrangle partitions and copy data around will work just fine. You should take care to align partition boundaries on block-size multiples -- and block sizes have tended to increase recently with the increase in size of storage media generally. But that's not special to SSDs. Then use dump and restore to copy your data over to each partition= =2E Cheers, Matthew --j5dJLHCwXLaJNi84BnrUUq6OfVEdImQ9w Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJV4B25AAoJEABRPxDgqeTnhskP/3aSMirbGh1G6+raaIBvkhVZ x2A4fLrp6lBq4o6SYav/CYP/C8hp/Zi2tAIktRESg1mRIL7PRp5mB4kmc60tgmii +aSJxNAUWQe+Iacm5PxGOuD609V2eysmoGEA8lOHirQBCn33cb49yhMfo6sdQZ6c mc/zDvoclXdGIJFS6TCtMlqNtho8VIYVpSTPwz6XET+jrBI3gSzxEMZDYvMP9Mqi /nA4s06fjhy7J57GAnVxh9Yu2jNns/N7lh0dqxYXXZuF+ohGTV5k++J5x801BDTu AF8XtwDMgUtb93M7wNjYjzw+kCuVDF0yS3jNgCARONxZqgYXdS84Sj09fZ95SIFU x1WbygUmoZ3wholQoiSo7f9RWsxOQwHY/RLYNzQ8WHiAMP9LOVwW+xWsb4J85gsD Th2GvmwsI/W6278bfa2z4EC7zll4Knq3KNHR1kdu9ARlsJBkdcDL4VC0Nth387sB 5mWrAEsxV280MsqMm3nql/IW0SFxTG9J+icoJfBzTQr9ULUFI33RniSbFL3R24IP Ockptx98qi3zsXgOlD+cu8eQTLZBqc8r27Jebj6sn/nPJ4LlMQdycpHfnqewCQ9Q tAXYd8eTdGbNQGQKgQwc2NmJuZB48lfc31oBRWLkxjTO9GW1TLpwWH28bNnngi8V STFxmts3Nay4rnDXhFRx =g2jc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --j5dJLHCwXLaJNi84BnrUUq6OfVEdImQ9w--