On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 07:32:09PM +0800, Winelfred Pasamba wrote: > or just > > cat /dev/hda > /dev/hdc >
This is much less efficient than doing dd. It can be much, much slower. You're cat'ing a block special, so the system is reading and writing bytes at a time from each block. The reading portion might not be so inefficient, but the writing part, ah... -- dido Sans les mathematiques on ne penetre point au fond de la philosophie. Sans la philosophie on ne penetre point au fond des mathematiques. Sans les deux on ne penetre au fond de rien. -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
