From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E33F1381F3 for ; Thu, 8 Nov 2012 15:39:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C28B5E06B7; Thu, 8 Nov 2012 15:38:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B6FBE0698 for ; Thu, 8 Nov 2012 15:37:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from digimed.co.uk (yooden.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.6]) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 735C381665 for ; Thu, 8 Nov 2012 15:37:41 +0000 (GMT) Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2012 15:37:33 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive change Message-ID: <20121108153733.6e7a9d02@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <509BCE5C.3030804@ccube.de> References: <509BCE5C.3030804@ccube.de> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.1cvs113 (GTK+ 2.24.13; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 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; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/6K4FgQlUfM7B_sgm=bYOpRz"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: ef21618f-e028-432e-a3ea-74eb88f18e55 X-Archives-Hash: 91cd8ac2e9f38b5efd005caf64d18fbf --Sig_/6K4FgQlUfM7B_sgm=bYOpRz Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 08 Nov 2012 16:23:08 +0100, mindrunner wrote: > i always use ddrescue for migrating to another hdd. > it is much more comfortable than dd and does not depent on file > systems, etc. > I always prefer copying on block device level. Even when the two devices have different block sizes? At best you'd get crap performance from misaligned filesystem boundaries. --=20 Neil Bothwick Top Oxymorons Number 10: Computer security --Sig_/6K4FgQlUfM7B_sgm=bYOpRz Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlCb0cQACgkQum4al0N1GQPDlQCghgRtgG/uTNTW4iLO547n5+pt 7dwAoLdF0j8ApJdSvNt4aeSX17e3PyC1 =FCSD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/6K4FgQlUfM7B_sgm=bYOpRz--