[Cialug] Using DD to copy hard drive

[Nathan C. Smith]

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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