On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 06:26:08PM +0200, Christoph Kukulies wrote: > 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.
Well, I don't know about the MSW stuff, but for the FreeBSD part, the dump/restore would keep everything they way it was. ////jerry > > 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-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > >> > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
