Mark Knecht wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 17, 2023 at 2:41 AM Wols Lists <antli...@youngman.org.uk > <mailto:antli...@youngman.org.uk>> wrote: > > > > On 17/04/2023 02:14, Dale wrote: > > > My current install is over a decade old. My /boot partition is about > > > 375MBs. I should have made it larger but at the time, I booted CD/DVD > > > media when needed. I didn't have USB sticks at the time. This > time, I > > > plan to make some changes. If I put Knoppix and/or Gentoo LiveGUI in > > > /boot, it will be larger. Much larger. Mark's idea is best tho. > If I > > > can get Grub to work and boot it. > > > > If you dd your boot partition across, you can copy it into a larger > > partition on the new drive, and then just expand the filesystem. > > > > So changing partition sizes isn't a problem if you want to just copy > > your system drive onto a new disk. > > > > Cheers, > > Wol > > I'm not sure I'd use dd in this case. If he's moving from an HDD with > a 4K block size and a 4K file system block size to an SDD with a 16K > physical block size he might want to consider changing the filesystem > block size to 16K which should help on the write amplification side. > > Maybe dd can do that but I wouldn't think so. > > And I don't know that formatting ext4 or some other FS to 16K > really helps the write amplification issue but it makes sense to > me to match the file system blocks to the underlying flash > block size. Real speed testing would be required to ensure reading > 16K blocks doesn't slow him down though. > > Just a thought, > Mark
I still haven't got around to partitioning the drive or anything so I'm glad you mentioned the block size. I need to try and remember that. It may detect it itself but may not. I'd rather fix it now than wish I did later on. I assume that setting is in the man page. Thanks for that tidbit. Now to remember it. :/ Dale :-) :-) P. s. It's garden time for folks around here. I been busy the past few days. Tractor and tiller too.
