On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 7:13 AM, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >
Well, GParted, if I recall, does a couple checks to guess 'best' block size when cloning or moving a partition, but I'm really not sure how it does things when shrinking and shifting it sideways to a spot that overlaps with where it started... but based on the above, I would guess it really does do a bs of 512, or ar best, the cluster size of the file system it is moving (usually 4k), since it's moving the data stored there, not the whole partition, block for block. -- Poison [BLX] Joshua M. Murphy
