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On 23/11/2020 20:25, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> > I agree on labels, they are far more readable. But I'm starting to think |
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> > that duplicating partitions like this is asking for trouble. I think it |
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> > would be better to create the partitions and filesystems you want on the |
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> > new disk, then mount both and copy everything over with rsync. That was |
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> > you won't get any conflicting UUIDs and you can set filesystem or |
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> > partition labels as you see fit. |
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> And correct me if I'm wrong but with rsync if something dies in process |
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> you can usually start it back up and complete the job without starting over |
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> from scratch. |
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If you dd the partition (which I'm planning to do), then there's no |
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problem of uuids - that's at the MBR GPT level. |
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The trouble with rsync is if your partition is heavily hard-linked, like |
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mine, you need to make sure you get your rsync options right or your |
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hard-disk usage explodes, and if you do get them right, your ram usage |
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explodes during the copy ... :-) |
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My problem is I'm going to be dd'ing a near-3TB near-full partition, and |
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my wall-time-usage is going to explode ... |
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Cheers, |
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Wol |
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