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| From: | Alan Mckinnon <alan@××××××××××××××××.za> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-user@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-user] Fastest raw copy method ? (/dev/sda -> /dev/sdb) | ||
| Date: | Mon, 21 Aug 2006 07:56:59 | ||
| Message-Id: | 1156146746.26520.25.camel@gentoo | ||
| In Reply to: | [gentoo-user] Fastest raw copy method ? (/dev/sda -> /dev/sdb) by Meino Christian Cramer |
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| 1 | On Sat, 2006-08-19 at 13:50 +0200, Meino Christian Cramer wrote: |
| 2 | > Hi, |
| 3 | > |
| 4 | > I am interested, whether there more speedier methods of copying |
| 5 | > /dev/sda to /dev/sdb (both are identical hds -- only the serial # |
| 6 | > differs :) as the good old |
| 7 | > |
| 8 | > dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=<cache size of one hd> |
| 9 | |
| 10 | dd is about as fast as it gets - reads a bunch of raw sectors, write |
| 11 | them somewhere else. |
| 12 | |
| 13 | alan |
| 14 | |
| 15 | |
| 16 | -- |
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