From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QnTxe-00055a-Go for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 31 Jul 2011 11:13:34 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 225F621C229; Sun, 31 Jul 2011 11:13:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ww0-f53.google.com (mail-ww0-f53.google.com [74.125.82.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A803821C17A for ; Sun, 31 Jul 2011 11:12:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwf26 with SMTP id 26so4295757wwf.10 for ; Sun, 31 Jul 2011 04:12:25 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=/MDejtjrs57aZoPQEtZF5sb8AUbvXfw1j9eN3iiV6EE=; b=OICU1iDUEyqFd11MXFlOT16+uJkNy73GqHE2Kjt8ihp+Z+mGPJL/WcxyaKUnvedgjn WeCA/XXeGa+l0ITElq9/XkXfVhBRZDC9YqhyvbsdH9M9V970QsURIQzL+9fdomqQ5FgK /spO/B2ab0+vVBqd7u5hrVmCmZWcOHSsSDM+M= Received: by 10.227.24.68 with SMTP id u4mr4831278wbb.43.1312110745798; Sun, 31 Jul 2011 04:12:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dell_xps.localnet (230.3.169.217.in-addr.arpa [217.169.3.230]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id k9sm2615951weq.3.2011.07.31.04.12.24 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 31 Jul 2011 04:12:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: OT: Re: [gentoo-user] X Freezes With Firefox on Many Post 2.6.38 Kernels Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2011 12:13:07 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/2.6.38-gentoo-r6; KDE/4.6.3; x86_64; ; ) References: <20110725182047.GM30008@ns1.bonedaddy.net> <201107310933.48285.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <4E35171D.6080409@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4E35171D.6080409@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart9729410.vAFBVMO3Zi"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201107311213.09474.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 73cb46b691d89a2f97c3a86160373b41 --nextPart9729410.vAFBVMO3Zi Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. > >=20 > > 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. >=20 > How do you know what size bs to use? I didn't specify one when I did > mine. Is there a "auto" option maybe? >=20 > Just curious. Sorry I was thinking of using dd to move/clone a partition, which allows yo= u=20 to set bs. Not sure how parted does it - it could potentially default to=20 bs=3D512 for all but the latest large disks, which would make things slower= I=20 guess. =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart9729410.vAFBVMO3Zi Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAk41OMUACgkQVTDTR3kpaLZelwCg1HJnvuI75sqc8yq86Uyr/dnQ UegAoIZ8NUCtGzveO6mXvFA62Oi8VIz/ =2xf5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart9729410.vAFBVMO3Zi--