[plug] dd speed estimates and /dev/hdx grepping

[Jay Turner]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-admin at plug.linux.org.au
> [mailto:plug-admin at plug.linux.org.au]On Behalf Of Jay Turner
> Sent: Thursday, 23 October 2003 8:46 AM
> To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> Subject: RE: [plug] dd speed estimates and /dev/hdx grepping
>
>
> So what are the ideal settings to use if one wishes to image one disk to
> another?
>
> From the looks of it I would be wise to perform the following:
>
> hdparm -d1 /dev/hdb
> hdparm -d1 /dev/hdc
> dd if=/dev/hdb of=/dev/hdc bs=?
>
> This is where hda is my linux OS drive
> hdb is the source Win/Linux/Whatever drive (IDE0)
> hdc is the destination drive (IDE1)
>
> Jay

I also forgot to ask, do the drives have to be the same size? or can the
destination drive be larger?

I have an 8GB src drive and 40GB dest drive..


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