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Am Sonntag, 7. Februar 2010 schrieb Mark Knecht: |
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> Hi Willie, |
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> OK - it turns out if I start fdisk using the -u option it show me |
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> sector numbers. Looking at the original partition put on just using |
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> default values it had the starting sector was 63 |
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Same here. |
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> - probably about the worst value it could be. |
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Hm.... what about those first 62 sectors? |
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I bought this 500GB drive for my laptop recently and did a fresh partitioning |
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scheme on it, and then rsynced the filesystems of the old, smaller drive onto |
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it. The first two partitions are ntfs, but I believe they also use cluster |
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sizes of 4k by default. So technically I could repartition everything and |
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then restore the contents from my backup drive. |
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And indeed my system becomes very sluggish when I do some HDD shuffling. |
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> As a test I blew away that partition and |
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> created a new one starting at 64 instead and the untar results are |
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> vastly improved - down to roughly 20 seconds from 8-10 minutes. That's |
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> roughly twice as fast as the old 120GB SATA2 drive I was using to test |
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> the system out while I debugged this issue. |
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Though the result justifies your decision, I would have though one has to |
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start at 65, unless the disk starts counting its sectors at 0. |
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Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' |
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Programmers don’t die, they GOSUB without RETURN. |
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