In the last episode (Jan 13), Matt Emmerton said:
> > When I am performing a dd between (2) 36 Gig 160 disks (to
> > duplicate them) it takes about 2.5 hrs. Is there any way I can
> > speed this up? Is there any better way I can clone a bootable main
> > disk?
>
> A larger blocksize (bs=) will help dramatically.
Also try double-buffering with ports/misc/team or ports/misc/buffer.
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Dan Nelson
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