Thanks for the info. I'm the maintainer of G4L since 2004, which is a diskimaging program. It is free, and defaults to a bit level copy. It does include ddrescue that handles disks with bad sectors to a degree. Actually, can add it as a boot option on the grub menu with the kernal file and ramdisk.lzma. Should probable look at an SDD disk, but not sure if the disk is the problem or just the dnf upgrade process. Disk doesn't seem to be slow, but don't know what results an SDD wourld have. hdparm -Tt /dev/sda /dev/sda: Timing cached reads: 6180 MB in 2.00 seconds = 3095.49 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 406 MB in 3.01 seconds = 134.89 MB/sec On 20 Jun 2019 at 21:27, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: Subject: Re: Just did an upgrade and it took 12 hours?? To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Date sent: Thu, 20 Jun 2019 21:27:51 -0700 Send reply to: Community support for Fedora users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> From: ToddAndMargo via users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Copies to: ToddAndMargo <ToddAndMargo@xxxxxxxx> > On 6/20/19 9:01 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: > > Laptops are slow unless you have an SSD > > I work on a lot of laptops with mechanical drives. They > drive me I-N-S-A-N-E. I can feel my beard growing. > > I love it when they start having problems with > their drive and the customer lets me clone them over > a Samsung SSD drive. I love Clonezille for such. > Clonezilla has a fix bad sectors option in advanced. > > And the users are ticked. It is like the got a super fast > brand new laptop with all their stuff already set up on it! > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx +------------------------------------------------------------+ Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor (Retired) mailto:mikes@xxxxxxxx mailto:msetzerii@xxxxxxxxx Guam - Where America's Day Begins G4L Disk Imaging Project maintainer http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/ +------------------------------------------------------------+ http://setiathome.berkeley.edu (Original) Number of Seti Units Returned: 19,471 Processing time: 32 years, 290 days, 12 hours, 58 minutes (Total Hours: 287,489) BOINC@HOME CREDITS ROSETTA 66311323.990119 | ABC 16613838.513356 SETI 109804121.703177 | EINSTEIN 141859222.999240 _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
