OT: fdisk

[Warren Block]

On Sun, 3 Oct 2010, Polytropon wrote:

> On Sun, 3 Oct 2010 10:00:51 -0700, Robert <traveling08 at 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.

It will give an exact copy of the first 250G, which also means it will 
not resize the 500G filesystem into a working 250G version.

The first step would be a copy of the entire drive.  Then the filesystem 
can be repaired and resized.