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On Monday 31 January 2011 21:19:44 Alex Schuster wrote: |
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> I just wrote: |
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> > My only fear is that the different drive geometry will be a problem, so |
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> > Grub does not find its stage2 in /boot, or file systems will unreadable |
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> > due to things being specified as head, cylinder and sector, instead of |
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> > absolute blocks. I'm pretty confident that there should be no problem, |
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> > but if I am wrong, I will be in trouble. |
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> Now I'm really really sure there will be no problem. What I wrote above |
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> about the gemotry is true I think, but all modern drives seem to have |
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> 255 heads and 63 sectors per track, so they will be compatible. |
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Does this also include the new 4096 byte sectors that (some) of the new 1TB |
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drives have? |
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TBH to avoid such conundrums I would partition the darn thing using parted |
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with -a optimal option and then (s)tar/rsync the data into it. It will most |
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likely be faster than dd in any case as blank space and sparse files can be |
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easily taken care of with (s)tar/rsync. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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