On 08/11/2010 09:45 AM, Bill wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> What's a good block size to use with tar? ie -b --blocking factor
>
> In a hard disk to hard disk and DVD backup scheme, the term
> block size gets used in at least six different ways. There are
> the blocks on the source hard disk - in this ca
In <1281545100.2833.297.ca...@zefram.soho.lan>, Bill wrote:
>On the source disk fdisk -l reveals cylinders of 16065 x 512B
>for a total of 8225280 bytes.
If using LBA, like the fast majority of drives now, this means very little.
These "cylinders" don't correspond to any meaningful property of t
Hi folks,
What's a good block size to use with tar? ie -b --blocking factor
In a hard disk to hard disk and DVD backup scheme, the term
block size gets used in at least six different ways. There are
the blocks on the source hard disk - in this case 512B in size
(at least until next year when th
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