I never payed attention to this. all i know is that the alignment is correct. (checked with parted)
On 11/08/2012 04:37 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 08 Nov 2012 16:23:08 +0100, mindrunner wrote: > >> i always use ddrescue for migrating to another hdd. >> it is much more comfortable than dd and does not depent on file >> systems, etc. >> I always prefer copying on block device level. > > Even when the two devices have different block sizes? > > At best you'd get crap performance from misaligned filesystem boundaries. > >