On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 17:12:24 +1100 Bret Comstock Waldow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My 20G disk copies in 2 hours and 40 minutes. I've experimented with Mine took 15 minutes for 6.4Gb. (athlon 1700+, dma4 disks) Why do people dd disks anyway. There's a few pitfalls such as duplicate serial numbers, duplicate mac addresses. (yes, sometimes mac addresses are stored in file base configuration) tar/dump/cpio are faster and more flexible. Matt ps. i had a specific data recovery purpose in my exercise -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
