From: Alan Mckinnon <alan@linuxholdings.co.za>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Fastest raw copy method ? (/dev/sda -> /dev/sdb)
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 09:52:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1156146746.26520.25.camel@gentoo> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060819.135051.71093023.Meino.Cramer@gmx.de>
On Sat, 2006-08-19 at 13:50 +0200, Meino Christian Cramer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am interested, whether there more speedier methods of copying
> /dev/sda to /dev/sdb (both are identical hds -- only the serial #
> differs :) as the good old
>
> dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=<cache size of one hd>
dd is about as fast as it gets - reads a bunch of raw sectors, write
them somewhere else.
alan
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2006-08-19 11:50 [gentoo-user] Fastest raw copy method ? (/dev/sda -> /dev/sdb) Meino Christian Cramer
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