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.
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
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