Re: How to move netbsd to another drive?

[email protected] ("Thomas Mueller") writes:

>from [email protected]:

>> man dd

>That doesn't always work.  I got an unmountable, unreadable file system when I dd'ed from a disk effectively with 512-byte sectors to a disk with 4096-byte sectors not pretending to be 512 bytes.

True.

First the filesystem cannot handle fragments smaller than a sector.

And second, if fragments are at least sector size you still need to
fix up the superblock, which you can do with tunefs -S,


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