Read_Write buffers for dd WAS: little cp diff

2010-02-08 Thread Sean Kennedy
Moving this to m...@... Would part of this discussion usefully related to such issues like using 'dd' for diskwipes/copies/reformatting and slow data movement speeds? There are times when I am wiping (for reuse) hard disks using 'dd' and I set the BlockSize to 512 (like 1M or so sometimes) and

Re: Read_Write buffers for dd WAS: little cp diff

2010-02-08 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 09:06:21AM -0500, Sean Kennedy wrote: Moving this to m...@... Would part of this discussion usefully related to such issues like using 'dd' for diskwipes/copies/reformatting and slow data movement speeds? There are times when I am wiping (for reuse) hard disks

Re: Read_Write buffers for dd WAS: little cp diff

2010-02-08 Thread Brad Tilley
On Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:06 -0500, Sean Kennedy woodentu...@hotmail.com wrote: Moving this to m...@... Would part of this discussion usefully related to such issues like using 'dd' for diskwipes/copies/reformatting and slow data movement speeds? There are times when I am wiping (for reuse)