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 1QnVsc-0006qb-SP for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 31 Jul 2011 13:16:31 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6C0B521C288; Sun, 31 Jul 2011 13:16:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-vx0-f181.google.com (mail-vx0-f181.google.com [209.85.220.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 988D421C255 for ; Sun, 31 Jul 2011 13:15:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vxh17 with SMTP id 17so4609869vxh.40 for ; Sun, 31 Jul 2011 06:15:21 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=C+8rAGXKcO5drjnNlO9ZFK+xO9I9Q2p3emvc/MjxGMA=; b=cp7pq6GwbL/LaNBeiBrTtrj9bch2AB8JyePd/rqGapJksIJDlIi4AQhJU98EhpJr3f eyAEUenpxDbC9BJiNR+8fyGT4bvL1+mYFUlcRCEvjY+PSURyenkhupo28kNB1Oer2lbC pbqSG5lPLc7qR9Tq4Ygq8VAJptv3XTeEB619o= 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 Received: by 10.220.201.129 with SMTP id fa1mr864005vcb.110.1312118120982; Sun, 31 Jul 2011 06:15:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.220.177.138 with HTTP; Sun, 31 Jul 2011 06:15:20 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <201107311213.09474.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> References: <20110725182047.GM30008@ns1.bonedaddy.net> <201107310933.48285.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <4E35171D.6080409@gmail.com> <201107311213.09474.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2011 09:15:20 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: OT: Re: [gentoo-user] X Freezes With Firefox on Many Post 2.6.38 Kernels From: Joshua Murphy To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 53873e3b7df23926da7c95c668930255 On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 7:13 AM, Mick wrote: > 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. =C2=A0If you have too small/large bs and the disk is >> > relatively large it will take quite some hours to get it transfered bi= t >> > by bit. >> >> How do you know what size bs to use? =C2=A0I didn't specify one when I d= id >> mine. =C2=A0Is 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. =C2=A0Not sure how parted does it - it could potentially defau= lt to > bs=3D512 for all but the latest large disks, which would make things slow= er I > guess. > -- > Regards, > Mick > Well, GParted, if I recall, does a couple checks to guess 'best' block size when cloning or moving a partition, but I'm really not sure how it does things when shrinking and shifting it sideways to a spot that overlaps with where it started... but based on the above, I would guess it really does do a bs of 512, or ar best, the cluster size of the file system it is moving (usually 4k), since it's moving the data stored there, not the whole partition, block for block. --=20 Poison [BLX] Joshua M. Murphy