Thanks, Peter and all others. Indeed, in contrary to the expected, I
went into my office this morning, swapped the
HD against the SSD, and was able to boot both FreeBSD, Windows without a
hitch or any other tweaking.
The dd over USB 2.0 to the SSD from the WD hard disk took 21261 s
(nearly 6
This are the bonnie results:
# bonnie -s 4000
File './Bonnie.1283', size: 4194304000
Writing with putc()...done
Rewriting...done
Writing intelligently...done
Reading with getc()...done
Reading intelligently...done
Seeker 1...Seeker 2...Seeker 3...start 'em...done...done...done...
Theoretically, doing a straight dd copy of one disk to another and then
swapping in that disk should work. I've done it, with no other tweaking needed.
I've never done it with mixed OS instances on the same disk, or for that matter
with a solid state drive. You'll lose the trailing 12GB of your
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
On 30 March 2010 12:11, Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote:
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
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,
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
On Tuesday 30 March 2010, Christoph Kukulies wrote:
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
On Tue, 30 Mar 2010, Mike Clarke wrote:
On Tuesday 30 March 2010, Christoph Kukulies wrote:
At the moment I'm copying (dd) from the WD internal disk to the SSD
which I had put into an external SATA Icybox.
...
You should be able to copy your Windows partition with DriveImage XML,
free for
