[Cialug] Using dd and netcat to move a disk

[Zachary Kotlarek]

On Jul 26, 2010, at 4:14 PM, Nathan C. Smith wrote:

> 
> I'm using a command like this:
> dd if=/dev/sda | nc x.x.x.x 6001
> 
> To move a drive between machines.  The dd program has reported how many records have been read and written (18290688+0 records in 18290688+0 records out).  
> 
> Will the system return to the command line?  It seems to have stopped responding, is this an artifact of nc still waiting for input?



It should return to the prompt.

dd should close the output stream when it's done; netcat should exit when the input stream is closed.

If you can get to another terminal I'd check to see what state dd and netcat are in.

	Zach

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