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Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Willie Wong <wwong@××××××××××××××.edu> wrote: |
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[snip] |
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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 - probably about the |
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I too was wondering why a Toshiba HDD 1.8" MK2431GAH (4kB-sector), 240 |
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GB I've recently obtained was slow: |
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-> time tar xfj portage-latest.tar.bz2 |
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real 16m5.500s |
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user 0m28.535s |
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sys 0m19.785s |
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Following your post I recreated a single partition (reiserfs 3.6) |
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starting at the 64th sector: |
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Disk /dev/sdb: 240.1 GB, 240057409536 bytes |
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255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 29185 cylinders, total 468862128 sectors |
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Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes |
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Disk identifier: 0xe7bf4b8e |
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Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System |
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/dev/sdb1 64 468862127 234431032 83 Linux |
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and the time was improved |
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-> time tar xfj portage-latest.tar.bz2 |
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real 2m15.600s |
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user 0m28.156s |
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sys 0m18.933s |
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