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Old 01-16-2008, 08:56 AM
Greg Andrews
 
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Default Re: Is this an excissive time to copy a disk ?

Dave <nospam@nowhere.com> writes:
>
># touch /reconfigure
># sync
># sync
># dd if=/dev/rdsk/c1t0d0s2 of=/dev/rdsk/c2t5d0s2
>


Add the bs parameter to set the block size to a megabyte:

dd if=/dev/rdsk/c1t0d0s2 of=/dev/rdsk/c2t5d0s2 bs=1024k


72GB disks took me about 40-45 minutes on the internal disks
in a V440. Your speed will depend on the SCSI bus and the
devices.

-Greg
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