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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Fastest raw copy method ? (/dev/sda -> /dev/sdb)
From: Alan Mckinnon <alan@linuxholdings.co.za>
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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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