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| From: | Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-user@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fast checksumming of whole partitions | ||
| Date: | Sun, 06 Jun 2010 20:01:07 | ||
| Message-Id: | 201006062100.17653.michaelkintzios@gmail.com | ||
| In Reply to: | [gentoo-user] Re: Fast checksumming of whole partitions by 7v5w7go9ub0o <7v5w7go9ub0o@gmail.com> | ||
| 1 | On Sunday 06 June 2010 19:55:57 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: |
| 2 | |
| 3 | > Based on this thread, I'll be running my backups from a |
| 4 | > statically-linked copy of dcfldd on a "jumpdisk" (backup copy on the |
| 5 | > boot sector). |
| 6 | > |
| 7 | > - Any advice on the dd "blocksize" parameter? |
| 8 | |
| 9 | Only to say that 4096 gets things done sooo much faster than 512. I don't |
| 10 | really know what is appropriate and if the buffer of the drive should be |
| 11 | brought into consideration and the bs adjusted to match. |
| 12 | |
| 13 | -- |
| 14 | Regards, |
| 15 | Mick |
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