In <[🔎] 1281545100.2833.297.camel@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 the drive. >Now since 16065 factors as 119 x >135, I figure I could theoretically use a blocking factor with >tar of anywhere between 1 and 135. 20 is the default but >realistically what block size should I use? 119 -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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