[mythtv-users] Clone MythTV HDD
Brian Wood
beww at beww.org
Tue Aug 4 22:01:08 UTC 2009
On Tuesday 04 August 2009 15:57:51 David Brodbeck wrote:
> Johnny wrote:
> > This weekend I cloned a drive with dd:
> >
> > dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb
> >
> > It took about 4 hours to do a 250 GB drive.
>
> It usually goes faster if you use a larger block size. I like:
>
> dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=1M
>
> I think the default block size is only 512 bytes, which isn't nearly
> large enough to get good performance out of most modern disks.
Remember that dd dates from the times of 1.4MB floppies, and a 20MB HDD was
gargantuan.
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Brian Wood
beww at beww.org
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