A questiong about replacing my failing drive

[mdw1982 at mdw1982.com (Mark Weaver)]

Collins Richey wrote:
> On 6/12/05, Mark Weaver <mdw1982@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>>Steve Huff wrote:
>>
> 
>>>3. dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/sdc bs=1024 (source disk is /dev/sdb,  target
>>>is /dev/sdc)
>>>
> 
> 
> Don't you get better performance with a larger bs=nnnn value? I don't
> have a clue what the optimum value should be.
> 

I just think it totally rocks that you can specify the block size 
instead of being locked into a 512 block size.

-- 
Mark
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