On Thursday 17 October 2002 10:55 pm, Steve Browne wrote: ... > dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb > > This works for me on an ext2 system. Not sure about ext3 and the > others. Warning: depending on your CPUs and drive sizes, the transfer > can take a LONG time. Like, five hours.
Have you tried increasing the buffer size? Something like "dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=8M" This should help, granted it won't do lots if you have 5400 RPM drive, with ISA IDE and a 486.
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