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.
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Regards,
Mick
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next prev parent 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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