On Sun, 3 Oct 2010 19:40:45 +0200 Polytropon <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, 3 Oct 2010 10:00:51 -0700, Robert <[email protected]> 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. If you intend > to "experiment" on the partition (which means that you don't just > do reading operations, but writing operations, too), and you're > using FreeBSD for that, simply use dd's of= parameter to write to > a file instead of directly to the partition; format the ad12 disk > with UFS for that purpose. > Polytropon Thanks for the info. I successfully did the above and now I have a 58.6GB file named disk.img on a UFS disk. Umm, what should I do now. Sorry for dumb question number 37 this weekend but I am a bit confused. Can I do just the opposite to another NTFS drive and end up with all the data looking like it should? I.E. dd from the file to an NTFS disk. Robert _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
