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From: mindrunner <kernel@ccube.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive change
Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2012 19:33:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <509BFAED.2060002@ccube.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121108153733.6e7a9d02@digimed.co.uk>

I never payed attention to this. all i know is that the alignment is
correct. (checked with parted)


On 11/08/2012 04:37 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 


  reply	other threads:[~2012-11-08 18:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-11-08 11:08 [gentoo-user] Hard drive change jdm
2012-11-08 11:51 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-11-08 13:03 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2012-11-08 14:12   ` Srdjan Rakic
2012-11-08 15:23     ` mindrunner
2012-11-08 15:37       ` Neil Bothwick
2012-11-08 18:33         ` mindrunner [this message]
2012-11-08 20:37       ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2012-11-09 12:00         ` mindrunner
2012-11-09 12:25           ` Bruce Hill
2012-11-09 13:56           ` Mark Knecht
2012-11-09 14:37             ` Bruce Hill
2012-11-13 21:10             ` Lukas Elsner
2012-11-09 14:00           ` Philip Webb
2012-11-09 15:07             ` Bruce Hill
     [not found]         ` <509C5091.4040903@ccube.de>
2012-11-09 15:14           ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2012-11-09 15:40             ` Bruce Hill
2012-11-09 17:56             ` Chris Walters
2012-11-08 15:10   ` Neil Bothwick
2012-11-08 16:37   ` Paul Hartman
2012-11-08 18:17     ` Florian Philipp
2012-11-08 19:46       ` john
2012-11-12 12:14         ` Mick
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2012-11-08 12:08 jdm

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