On Sunday 31 Jul 2011 09:49:33 Dale wrote:
> Mick wrote:
> > On Sunday 31 Jul 2011 01:53:39 Peter Humphrey wrote:
> >> I hope you're pleased to know the process finished. 23 hours to move a
> >> partition! Never heard anything like it.
> > 
> > Not unheard of.  If you have too small/large bs and the disk is
> > relatively large it will take quite some hours to get it transfered bit
> > by bit.
> 
> How do you know what size bs to use?  I didn't specify one when I did
> mine.  Is there a "auto" option maybe?
> 
> Just curious.

Sorry I was thinking of using dd to move/clone a partition, which allows you 
to set bs.  Not sure how parted does it - it could potentially default to 
bs=512 for all but the latest large disks, which would make things slower I 
guess.
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Regards,
Mick