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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive change
Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2012 15:39:10
Message-Id: 20121108153733.6e7a9d02@digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive change by mindrunner
1 On Thu, 08 Nov 2012 16:23:08 +0100, mindrunner wrote:
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3 > i always use ddrescue for migrating to another hdd.
4 > it is much more comfortable than dd and does not depent on file
5 > systems, etc.
6 > I always prefer copying on block device level.
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8 Even when the two devices have different block sizes?
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10 At best you'd get crap performance from misaligned filesystem boundaries.
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