[mythtv-users] SSDs and Myth frontends ?

[Eric Sharkey]

On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:
> The nice thing about DDing an entire disk is that *everything*, including the MBR and any partition tables

...and all free blocks, and fragmented files stay fragmented in just
as many pieces as on the original file system.

dd is really my method of last resort for moving a filesystem.  Pretty
much anything else (tar, cp -a, rsync) will get the job done faster
and you'll end up with a better result.

Eric