What about 4096-byte logical sector size
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I've seen the discussion about "WD Advanced Format" drives (4096-byte physical / 512-byte logical), but what about drives that use 4096-byte logical sector size too (4096 physical / 4096 logical). Can clonezilla restore to a drive with 4096-byte logical sectors if the original had 512-byte sectors?
Clonezilla should be able to clone that for you. However, you need to use some of the tuning tools to tune the cloned disk. Otherwise the performance won't be good.
Steven.
I had great success cloning a dual-boot system with -r -k1 option, Thanks!
But I am also interested in this alignment issue; some of my partitions are aligned and some are not, according to Ubuntu disk manager tool.
What "tuning tools" do you mean? (Are there really tools that can adjust the start of a partition that contains and NTFS filesystem?)
I wonder if the -k1 option could be forced to perform its size calculations modulo 8 sectors (e.g.).
Thanks for any pointers.
The tuning tools I meant is from the hard drive vendor. However, normally most of them are for MS Windows... As for GNU/Linux, you will have a chance to use sfdisk to tune that, you need to calculate sector numbers. However, it's very risky...
Steven.