Creating clone of a HDD including boot partition

[Adam Vande More]

On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 4:05 PM, bsd <bsd at todoo.biz> wrote:

>
> $ gzcat pfSense_HDD.gz | dd of=/dev/disk1 bs=1m
>
> <snip>
> Is there anything I can do to speed up the process ?
>

Not without interrupting it,  but prior to that you could have done things
like testing for optimal bs=.  1m should perform ok, but you may have been
able to get better throughput with a smaller value.

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-performance/2005-October/001555.html

If they are IDE drive make sure they are on different controllers eg not in
a master/slave arrangement.

Buy a faster /dev/disk1



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Adam Vande More