How can I speed up a dd copy?

Matt Emmerton matt at gsicomp.on.ca
Thu Jan 13 17:04:18 PST 2005


>  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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