@Justicar lsblk is reporting them as different sizes. Between that and coming formatted FAT32 out of the box, I'm calling them shit.
Ordinarily I wouldn't care about a 1GiB capacity difference, but the only reason I got these was to make a bunch of clones of an existing drive and these are not fit for purpose.
I remember Lexar as a good brand as well but clearly the times have changed. Could be the Costco packs are slop but Costco usually does a good job keeping crap out of their stores.
@RegalBeagle @Justicar
"double nigger" is a goated insult, stealing that.
dd is usually my go-to too, but as you say, it will copy the entire contents of the source drive, including unused space, to the destination drive resulting in an image that contains the full source drive layout.
You can fuck around with range/count sectors but honestly, it's best just to use rsync for a data-mirror at that point. Plus, rsync gives you small, quick incremental diffs on subsequent use. Win.
@RegalBeagle @Justicar
Something like this for an rsync mirror:
args=(
"--archive"
"--verbose"
"--human-readable"
"--compress"
"--ignore-existing"
"--delete"
"--progress"
)
rsync "${args[@]}" "${path_src}" "${path_dest}"
Done.
@RegalBeagle @Justicar
Never go full double nigger, use rsync!
That was as fun as I knew it would be.
@UncleIroh @Justicar I'll make note of this. I ended up just copy/pasting the files between drives minus a few files for the size differences.
Still annoyed that apparently 128GB can mean any size from 116 to 117 GiB. I thought we standardized this shit years ago.