Tony Green wrote:
that dd command so it might work - i just found dd to be really slow for
even an 8GB drive.
Usually caused by a lack of the option 'bs=8192k' (or similar)
Make sure you have dma etc enabled on the drives too
Could you expand on that please?
..reading man dd..
okay bs=x means
dd is a low level stuff - you will end up with everything exactly the
same and it will take ages.
you might want to look at a more parttion level tool like partimage with
comes with knoppix its like a ghost equivalent. ghost is really what you
want - a partition level tool that can keep the
On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 11:29, Dave Kempe wrote:
that dd command so it might work - i just found dd to be really slow for
even an 8GB drive.
Usually caused by a lack of the option 'bs=8192k' (or similar)
Make sure you have dma etc enabled on the drives too
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On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 11:29, Dave Kempe wrote:
that dd command so it might work - i just found dd to be really slow
for
even an 8GB drive.
Usually caused
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From: Chris Barnes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, 29 September 2003 12:25 PM
To: SLUG
Subject: RE: [SLUG] copying whole disks with knoppix
Just a quick question, is there any easy way to determine the block size
on a hard disk?
Because most people might
