On 2014-07-04 19:30 (GMT-0500) David C. Rankin composed:
So the disk internal sector size will prevent cloning of any old drive for use on a new drive??
That's not what I wrote. You can do it, but there will be a performance hit as compared to installing to partitions aligned to the native sector size. I have no idea of the size of the performance hit, but it may be that a new disk degraded may be not be materially different from the native performance of the older HD, or the laptop's disk controller. I simply do not know anything about what the hit can amount to.
Damn, I've got more reading to do. Surely some of the tools take this into account. Bummer -- I really, really didn't want to spend 3 days tweaking a new install.
You do not need a new install, just a less convenient procedure than dd of migrating from old HD to new HD using rsync and/or cp after routine partition and filesystem creation processes, followed up with bootloader installation. Maybe Clonezilla or something else already has easy already worked out as you suggest something should have?
Thank you for catching this. Who knows how much fun I would have gotten myself into otherwise.
I do a lot of cloning, but I've not tried any with/without comparisons to see what the performance penalty might amount to. Somewhere on the web surely someone must have described it by now with 3+ years of 4k sector life behind us. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org