[Cialug] Using DD to copy hard drive

[Aaron Thompson]

It probably also depends if the speed and setup of the drives, if DMA is 
enabled, and the if the planets are aligned properly...

Out of curiosity - why not manually partition the disk and use something 
like rsync,tar, or cpio? Why dd?

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Dave Weis wrote:
> 
> 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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> 

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