Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2010 22:27:02 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Robert <traveling08@cox.net> Subject: Re: OT: fdisk Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1010032216560.88254@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <20101003194045.849d6419.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <201010031319.o93DJaDE005892@mail.r-bonomi.com> <20101003100051.23e2cc77@asus64> <20101003194045.849d6419.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Sun, 3 Oct 2010, Polytropon wrote: > On Sun, 3 Oct 2010 10:00:51 -0700, Robert <traveling08@cox.net> wrote: >> I have a spare 250G hard drive. Can I use "dd" to capture 250 gigs >> from the old drive? Using da1 and ad12 as the if and of will the result >> be an NTFS formatted 250g drive? Will I have the same results, i.e. >> able to mount ad12 but not ad12s1? > > Yes, as dd gives you an 1:1 copy of what you have. It will give an exact copy of the first 250G, which also means it will not resize the 500G filesystem into a working 250G version. The first step would be a copy of the entire drive. Then the filesystem can be repaired and resized.
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