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Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2012 19:33:17 +0100
From: mindrunner <kernel@ccube.de>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive change
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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.
> 
>