Reply 60 of 64, by pewpewpew
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I see. Yeah that'd work.
but what about larger ones?
They're slower.
This is why I use a utility box. Nothing is actually "slow" if I don't have to stand there babysitting it. And nothing really seems to take all that long after running badblocks on modern terabyte-sized drives.
HOWEVER. "Funny you should mention that." The 14gb drive I just did, did not go as swimmingly, so I must issue an amendment.
Basically I got a nonsensical 'not enough disk space' error after clicking Create Image. And that error turned up no Search results. But I recalled there is a similarly odd error with the benchmarking in Disks if you're running the 32bit version. So I booted a 64bit live-ISO. Which went fine /after/ I also did 'gksu gnome-disks' to get around a Permissisons error that blocked Disks from writing to the box's main drive.
Which really didn't cause me more than a couple of minutes of farting around, but I can see for a lot of people that would no longer be Fall-Off-Log easy.
So... poop. Sorry about that.