Mark Knecht wrote: > On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Willie Wong <ww...@math.princeton.edu> wrote: [snip] > OK - it turns out if I start fdisk using the -u option it show me > sector numbers. Looking at the original partition put on just using > default values it had the starting sector was 63 - probably about the
I too was wondering why a Toshiba HDD 1.8" MK2431GAH (4kB-sector), 240 GB I've recently obtained was slow: -> time tar xfj portage-latest.tar.bz2 real 16m5.500s user 0m28.535s sys 0m19.785s Following your post I recreated a single partition (reiserfs 3.6) starting at the 64th sector: Disk /dev/sdb: 240.1 GB, 240057409536 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 29185 cylinders, total 468862128 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0xe7bf4b8e Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 64 468862127 234431032 83 Linux and the time was improved -> time tar xfj portage-latest.tar.bz2 real 2m15.600s user 0m28.156s sys 0m18.933s -- Valmor
