On Tue, 01 Nov 2005 12:35:54 +0000
Dave <nospam@nowhere.com> wrote:

> I'm trying to clone a bootable 36 GB disk to another identical 36 GB
> in
> single user mode.
>
>
> # touch /reconfigure
> # sync
> # sync
> # dd if=/dev/rdsk/c1t0d0s2 of=/dev/rdsk/c2t5d0s2
>
> and after 9 hours the dd command has still not finished, and from
> what I
> gather (not being by the machine), there is not much sign of any disk
> activity. The disk are not antique models, so I am surprised that
> after
> 9 hours this has not copied. It that to be expected? I know it copies
> all the disk (even where there's no data), but am concerned it is
> just
> not going to work.
>
>

Yes, very excessiv.
36 gig should not take more then half to an hour.



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I have seen things you lusers would not believe.
I've seen Sun monitors on fire off the side of the multimedia lab.
I've seen NTU lights glitter in the dark near the Mail Gate.
All these things will be lost in time, like the root partition last
week.
Time to die.