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On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 04:14:47PM +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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> Am Freitag, 9. November 2012, 01:38:41 schrieb mindrunner: |
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> > volker, what is your intention to say i am dumb and stupid. actually you |
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> > do not know me. |
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> everybody does something dumb and/or stupid once in a while. I average that |
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> one to 1/day. |
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> There are two ways to react if someone points out that something you do is not |
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> the best idea since sliced bread. |
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> -> oops. Yeah, I see it. |
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> or |
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> -> sulking. |
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> > copying on block device level has of cource advantages. and really... i |
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> > dont care about 0.4% fragemntation and some journal log. |
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> no, it does not. Apart from fragmentation you also copy all deleted files. All |
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> damaged blocks AND the UUID. |
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> Oh, and it is slow (I know, fiddling with blocksize etc you can speed it up a |
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> lot. Still slow). |
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> > I never made bad experiences with this copy technique. |
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> which doesn't mean it is a good one. |
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> > all my hard drives, ssd and virtual containers are working fine without |
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> > any performance issues. |
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> How do you know? |
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> > so what exactly is your problem? |
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> you are telling someone to do something really stupid. |
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> Create an image with dd to do some file rescuing? forensic stuff? as a template |
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> for containers? To burn it on a dvd/cd? Well, those are valid uses for dd. |
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> Converting files? Yes, that is what dd was made for. |
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> Copying a partition to another disk, different disk? Wow.. that is just wrong. |
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> Even if both disks were identical it would not be great idea. Just a 'well, it |
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> does work and at least I am not punishing the new disk' way to do it. |
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> Mind you, cp -auv is not the best way either. With ACLs&co it is not such a |
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> good choice. And I am surprised that Joerg Schilling hasn't posted how |
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> incredible star is for this job yet. Btw, star is a really good tool for the |
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> job. It just needs a lot of typing. |
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> tar, rsync, cp, star... there are many good or good enough ways to copy files |
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> from one harddisk to another |
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> dd doesn't belong in that category. |
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> - |
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> #163933 |
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Spot on! Here you can be nice and explain to the guy your reasoning behind |
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telling him using dd{whatever} for this job is stupid. |
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