On 7 Sep 2018 at 15:54, Ranjan Maitra wrote: Date sent: Fri, 7 Sep 2018 15:54:59 -0500 From: Ranjan Maitra <maitra@xxxxxxxxx> To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: OT: fastest way to copy one drive to another Organization: Mailbox Ignored Send reply to: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > On Fri, 7 Sep 2018 16:37:49 -0400 Tony Nelson <tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On 18-09-07 15:48:23, jdow wrote: > > > > > dd if=/dev/<drive1> of=/dev/<drive2> bs=1073741824 > > > conv=sparse,noerror & pid=$! > > > > bs=1M > > > > Btw, do the drives have to be unmounted? Just making sure. Drives should not be mounted at time, or changes could be made during the copying process. The line for the cloning process in my g4l is like this. dd bs=1M if=$clonesource 2>/dev/null |jetcat-mod -f 5000 -p $clonesize 2>$progout |dd bs=1M of=$clonetarget 2>/dev/null & Uses a dialog script to set the variables, and then runs the copy command in background. The foreground script takes the data written to the progout file and displays a progress bar via dialog. Be very careful to make sure you copy the correct drive to the correct drive, since if you get it wrong you loose it all. > > Thanks, > Ranjan > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx +------------------------------------------------------------+ Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor (Retired) mailto:mikes@xxxxxxxx mailto:msetzerii@xxxxxxxxx Guam - Where America's Day Begins G4L Disk Imaging Project maintainer http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/ +------------------------------------------------------------+ http://setiathome.berkeley.edu (Original) Number of Seti Units Returned: 19,471 Processing time: 32 years, 290 days, 12 hours, 58 minutes (Total Hours: 287,489) BOINC@HOME CREDITS ROSETTA 65778205.643098 | ABC 16613838.513356 SETI 109514958.178814 | EINSTEIN 141374481.499240 _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx