Re: DD not working--SUCCESS!

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On Fri, 31 Aug 2007, Ian Malone wrote:

> Karl Larsen wrote:
> > Jacques B. wrote:
>
> > >  Because the clone would be of a
> > > running system.  So booting from it would be comparable to booting
> > > from a system that crashed (I'm making an educated guess at that one).
> > >
> >    Not a good guess. To use DD you need a computer with dd and a fast cpu. I
> > did top while dd was working and it was taking 70% of the cpu's time :-P
> >
>
> It's one of the oldest Unix programs: it will copy as fast as your
> system can go.  Yes, a fast system will copy faster.

i'm guessing he failed to provide a decent blocksize so dd was using
the default blocksize of 512 bytes.  that will slow things down in a
hurry.

rday
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