On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Steven wrote:
> Clarence Verge wrote:
>> Using DOS 5.0 and xcopy, my estimate is 30-50 seconds
>> for 120Mb to an empty partition.
> HA,HA, nice joke Clarence. I've used xcopy quite a lot and
> 30-50 seconds for 120Mb is nonsense. Unless, of course, that
> 120Mb is made up of just a few large files. Xcopy takes much
> longer when there are lots of subdirectories with lots of
> little files. 30-50 seconds per 10Mb is more like it.
Ha,Ha no joke, Steven.
Maybe a little bit of defective memory tho. I didn't recall any
distress related to copying my C: drive to an empty partition and
back again.
I certainly would have remembered the kind of surprise I got when
I deleriously deletreed windows on the new box I got .
It took 45 minutes !!!
I decided to check my memory and here is a screen capture of the
drivecopy operation just completed, using Norton Timemark to measure:
Volume Serial Number is 406B-19E5
262901760 bytes total disk space
1916928 bytes in 440 directories
81932288 bytes in 7497 user files
179052544 bytes available on disk
4096 bytes in each allocation unit
64185 total allocation units on disk
43714 available allocation units on disk
654336 total bytes memory
610160 bytes free
4:36 pm, Friday, September 28, 2001
Volume Serial Number is 1B46-19E6 2 minutes, 5 seconds
262901760 bytes total disk space
1916928 bytes in 440 directories
81932288 bytes in 7497 user files
179052544 bytes available on disk
4096 bytes in each allocation unit
64185 total allocation units on disk
43714 available allocation units on disk
654336 total bytes memory
610160 bytes free
C:\ 17:39:03>DIR F:
Volume in drive F has no label
Volume Serial Number is 1B46-19E6
Directory of F:\
SPEEDCHK BAT 9930 00-07-12 14:48
TIMEMARK COM 3814 85-04-19 9:32
NMAP CMD 70 01-07-14 18:26
LOCK BAT 113 01-07-23 15:59
DRAGON76 <DIR> 01-09-28 16:34
PYGMY06 <DIR> 01-09-28 16:35
LINUX <DIR> 01-09-28 16:35
7 file(s) 13927 bytes
179052544 bytes free
Sorry, I was off by a factor of 2. :((
The Linux above is Redhat 5.1.
- Clarence Verge.
-- Using Arachne 1.66 on DSL.
