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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fast checksumming of whole partitions
Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2010 21:00:08 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201006062100.17653.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C0BEF3D.5070103@gmail.com>

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On Sunday 06 June 2010 19:55:57 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote:

> Based on this thread, I'll be running my backups from a
> statically-linked copy of dcfldd on a "jumpdisk" (backup copy on the
> boot sector).
> 
> - Any advice on the dd "blocksize" parameter?

Only to say that 4096 gets things done sooo much faster than 512.  I don't 
really know what is appropriate and if the buffer of the drive should be 
brought into consideration and the bs adjusted to match.

-- 
Regards,
Mick

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-06-06 20:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-05  6:39 [gentoo-user] Fast checksumming of whole partitions meino.cramer
2010-06-05  7:19 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2010-06-07 15:48   ` meino.cramer
2010-06-07 17:10     ` walt
2010-06-07 18:47       ` meino.cramer
2010-06-07 17:31     ` Andrea Conti
2010-06-07 18:54       ` meino.cramer
2010-06-11 22:41         ` Mick
2010-06-05  7:32 ` [gentoo-user] " Andrea Conti
2010-06-05 17:39 ` [gentoo-user] " 7v5w7go9ub0o
2010-06-05 19:23   ` meino.cramer
2010-06-05 20:11     ` Manuel Klemenz
2010-06-06 19:02       ` 7v5w7go9ub0o
2010-06-06 19:47         ` Joerg Schilling
2010-06-06 22:43           ` 7v5w7go9ub0o
2010-06-06 23:12             ` Joerg Schilling
2010-06-06 22:46         ` Neil Bothwick
2010-06-07  1:04           ` 7v5w7go9ub0o
2010-06-05 23:44     ` 7v5w7go9ub0o
2010-06-06 10:19       ` Andrea Conti
2010-06-06 16:55         ` Mick
2010-06-06 18:55         ` 7v5w7go9ub0o
2010-06-06 20:00           ` Mick [this message]
2010-06-06 20:45           ` Andrea Conti
2010-06-06 23:06             ` 7v5w7go9ub0o

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