DD not working--SUCCESS!

[Karl Larsen]

Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Aug 2007, Ian Malone wrote:
>
>   
>> Karl Larsen wrote:
>>     
>>> Jacques B. wrote:
>>>       
>>>>  Because the clone would be of a
>>>> running system.  So booting from it would be comparable to booting
>>>> from a system that crashed (I'm making an educated guess at that one).
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>    Not a good guess. To use DD you need a computer with dd and a fast cpu. I
>>> did top while dd was working and it was taking 70% of the cpu's time :-P
>>>
>>>       
>> It's one of the oldest Unix programs: it will copy as fast as your
>> system can go.  Yes, a fast system will copy faster.
>>     
>
> i'm guessing he failed to provide a decent blocksize so dd was using
> the default blocksize of 512 bytes.  that will slow things down in a
> hurry.
>
> rday
>   
    I used the default block size Robert. What size would you use and why?



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