[Cialug] Using DD to copy hard drive

Dave Weis djweis at internetsolver.com
Mon Jan 30 09:28:31 CST 2006


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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