Am Sonntag, 7. Februar 2010 schrieb Mark Knecht: > Hi Willie, > 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
Same here. > - probably about the worst value it could be. Hm.... what about those first 62 sectors? I bought this 500GB drive for my laptop recently and did a fresh partitioning scheme on it, and then rsynced the filesystems of the old, smaller drive onto it. The first two partitions are ntfs, but I believe they also use cluster sizes of 4k by default. So technically I could repartition everything and then restore the contents from my backup drive. And indeed my system becomes very sluggish when I do some HDD shuffling. > As a test I blew away that partition and > created a new one starting at 64 instead and the untar results are > vastly improved - down to roughly 20 seconds from 8-10 minutes. That's > roughly twice as fast as the old 120GB SATA2 drive I was using to test > the system out while I debugged this issue. Though the result justifies your decision, I would have though one has to start at 65, unless the disk starts counting its sectors at 0. -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' Programmers don’t die, they GOSUB without RETURN.
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