On 6/3/2010 9:28 AM, Steven Shiau wrote: > >> Using clonezilla-live-20100521-lucid.iso it goes through the same >> motions as it would with a 512 byte sector disk, duplicating the initial >> offset of 63. I don't think there is any way for it to tell the >> difference, since the drive reports 512 byte sectors - but is slow >> unless you write 8 at once on the right boundaries. >> > Could you please more info about this "512 byte sector disk"?
It's a Western Digital 'Sonic Blue' 750 gig laptop drive. They've done approximately the same thing with their 'green' desktop drives. Here's some generic info on the issue: https://lwn.net/Articles/377895/ hdparm -I reports it as a 512 byte physical/logical drive even though it has to do a read/modify/write unless you write 4k on the right boundaries. >> But, something seems to be wrong with partclone's (v0.2.9) math. Right >> now it is saying: >> Elapsed 03:11:52 >> Remaining 01:47:25 >> Rate 235.94 MB/min >> >> But the progress bar says it is 6% done (which is probably about right). >> > What's the partition size? What's the used block space? It's a 750 gig drive with 1 partition, about 75% used. What I'm trying to do is enough of a corner case (cloning from a 512k to a 4k sector drive) that it might not be worth the trouble to investigate. I thought it might work to use fdisk's expert mode to shift the beginning of the partition from 63 to 56 and then clone the partition instead of the disk, but that seemed even slower. I couldn't wait for either test to complete. If I shift forward to the recommended 64, then the space will be smaller than the source I want to copy. > Could you please post more info on the screen, something like here: > http://clonezilla.org/clonezilla-live/doc/01_Save_disk_image/images/ocs-11-save-progress-2.png It may be another week before I can boot this machine into clonezilla-live again. How do I get the text display instead of the dialog box with the progress bar? -- Les Mikesell [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo _______________________________________________ Clonezilla-live mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clonezilla-live
