On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 12:23:24 -0600, Dan Farrell wrote: > you could do that, but dd should be significantly faster, because it > reads directly from the platters without going through the filesystem.
On the other hand, it copies every byte of the disk, whether in use or not. Unless you have a very full, and fragmented disk, copying only the data you need is likely to be much faster. The one time I used dd to copy an entire disk, it took a day and forever. -- Neil Bothwick Top Oxymorons Number 6: Pretty ugly
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