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. -- Matt Emmerton
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