Re: [Clonezilla-live] drives with 4k sectors?

[Steven S. <st...@nc...>]

On 2010年05月26日 23:26, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On 5/26/2010 10:00 AM, Steven Shiau wrote:
>    
>> I think this depends on the library we used in partclone, and it should
>> be updated enough.
>> Do you have any problem with that?
>>      
> I haven't tried it yet, but what I really want to do is copy the data
> from a raid mirror on Seagate 750G drives to a WD 'scorpio blue' 2.5"
> drive that claims to have the same capacity - and does in terms of 512
> byte sectors.  I'd like to do it by adding it into the raid, letting it
> sync, then removing it, but that is about 10x slower than doing it with
> a desktop drive and not practical.   So, I'm looking for any other way
> to accomplish this copy to have an offsite backup of this data (which
> happens to be a backuppc archive with millions of hardlinks that make
> techniques other than image copies very slow).
>
> I suspect that even if clonezilla does try to adjust the alignment, it
> will shift the initial offset from 63 to 64 (there's one big partition)
> which will leave the partition space too small to match the original -
> but I can try it to see what happens.
>
>    
Yes, please let us know the results if you try that.
Thanks.

Steven.

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