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