copy full system from old disk to a new one

[Reindl Harald]

Am 19.02.2013 19:44, schrieb Heinz Diehl:
> On 19.02.2013, Reindl Harald wrote: 
> 
>> and why did you strip the part where i showed you that any of my
>> filesystems of the last 5 years have a 4 KB blocksize as also
>> any of my hardware of the last 5 years is "newer"?
> 
> Because what you posted doesn't give any information on how your
> partitions are aligned, actually. Just having a FS using 4k blocksize 
> on top of a misaligned partition doesn't work out.
> 
> Cloning a disk using "dd", you most probably will create misaligned
> partitions on any advanced format disk, which most of the newer drives
> are

what exactly do you need to align on the partitions?

for raid-setups you usually left 10-30 MB completly unpartitioned
to make 100% sure that you get not troubles by replace a drive



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