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On Sunday 31 Jul 2011 09:49:33 Dale wrote: |
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> Mick wrote: |
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> > On Sunday 31 Jul 2011 01:53:39 Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> >> I hope you're pleased to know the process finished. 23 hours to move a |
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> >> partition! Never heard anything like it. |
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> > Not unheard of. If you have too small/large bs and the disk is |
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> > relatively large it will take quite some hours to get it transfered bit |
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> > by bit. |
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> How do you know what size bs to use? I didn't specify one when I did |
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> mine. Is there a "auto" option maybe? |
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> Just curious. |
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Sorry I was thinking of using dd to move/clone a partition, which allows you |
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to set bs. Not sure how parted does it - it could potentially default to |
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bs=512 for all but the latest large disks, which would make things slower I |
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guess. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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