From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] dd'ing small drive to large one
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2011 08:42:15 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110201084215.6671270f@digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D475526.20402@wonkology.org>
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On Tue, 01 Feb 2011 01:34:46 +0100, Alex Schuster wrote:
> And shouldn't dd be a little faster for a full drive because there is no
> file system overhead, no seeking operations?
Only is the drive is really full, and if it's that full the filesystem
will be fragmented horribly and a cloned copy is the last thing you want.
If it's not full, dd will be slower in terms of computer time but faster
in operator time.
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Neil Bothwick
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-01 9:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-31 17:34 [gentoo-user] dd'ing small drive to large one Alex Schuster
2011-01-31 18:19 ` Allan Gottlieb
2011-01-31 18:36 ` Alex Schuster
2011-01-31 19:16 ` Allan Gottlieb
2011-01-31 20:34 ` Alan McKinnon
[not found] ` <4D472323.6050007@wonkology.org>
2011-01-31 21:19 ` Alex Schuster
2011-01-31 22:37 ` Nils Holland
2011-01-31 22:39 ` Mick
2011-02-01 0:34 ` Alex Schuster
2011-02-01 8:42 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2011-01-31 22:57 ` Iain Buchanan
2011-02-02 13:41 ` Alex Schuster
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