[Cialug] Using DD to copy hard drive

[Nathan C. Smith]

If it's not done by the time I get home today I'm going to restart it with
your parms.

Thanks.

-Nate

-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Weis [mailto:djweis at sjdjweis.com] 
Sent: Monday, January 30, 2006 9:37 AM
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
Subject: RE: [Cialug] Using DD to copy hard drive



More in hours. I copied a 60 gig drive in less than an hour, but different 
hardware.

On Mon, 30 Jan 2006, Nathan C. Smith wrote:

> Egads, no wonder.
>
> Are you still looking at a day when you use the 1 meg block size or a 
> lot less?  On the order of an hour or less?
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Weis [mailto:djweis at internetsolver.com]
> Sent: Monday, January 30, 2006 9:29 AM
> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Cialug] Using DD to copy hard drive
>
>
>
> If you used the default options it will take a reallly long time. I 
> use bs=1048576 or larger (1 meg blocks). By default I think it uses 
> 512 byte.
>
> dave
>
> On Mon, 30 Jan 2006, Nathan C. Smith wrote:
>
>>
>> I'm using DD to copy a 120 GB hard drive, anyone know roughly how 
>> long an operation like that should take?  (It's been going over 24 
>> hours
>> now.)
>>
>> -Nate
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