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Date:      Thu, 13 Jan 2005 20:02:02 -0500
From:      "Matt Emmerton" <matt@gsicomp.on.ca>
To:        "Drumslayer2" <drumslayer2@yahoo.com>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: How can I speed up a dd copy?
Message-ID:  <005801c4f9d4$a924f110$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca>
References:  <20050114003814.27395.qmail@web42109.mail.yahoo.com>

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>  Hello
>  When I am performing a dd between (2) 36 Gig 160
> disks (to duplicate them) it takes about 2.5 hrs. Is
> there any way I can speed this up? Is there any better
> way I can clone a bootable main disk?

A larger blocksize (bs=) will help dramatically.

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Matt Emmerton



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