[NMLUG] hard drive replacement how to,

Subject: [NMLUG] hard drive replacement how to,
From: pi at pihost.us (Anthony Martinez)
Date: Sat Jun 3 14:10:47 2006
In-reply-to: <20060602204127.50037.qmail@web38910.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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Tim Emerick wrote:
> Someone noted that dd is very slow.  Probably explains why dd was still
> cranking away on my 250gig this morning when I woke up.

dd is slow if you use the default option for blocksize, which, IIRC, was
designed to be backward compatible to magnetic tapes. Try dd if=/dev/hda2
of=/dev/hdb2 bs=1M (replacing the if= and of= correctly.) If it chokes on that
argument, try bs=1048576

- -- Pi
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