Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2010 14:29:35 -0700 From: Robert <traveling08@cox.net> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OT: fdisk Message-ID: <20101003142935.3d751862@asus64> 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 19:40:45 +0200 Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> 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. 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
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