On Fri, 31 Aug 2007, Ian Malone wrote: > Karl Larsen wrote: > > Jacques B. wrote: > > > > Because the clone would be of a > > > running system. So booting from it would be comparable to booting > > > from a system that crashed (I'm making an educated guess at that one). > > > > > Not a good guess. To use DD you need a computer with dd and a fast cpu. I > > did top while dd was working and it was taking 70% of the cpu's time :-P > > > > It's one of the oldest Unix programs: it will copy as fast as your > system can go. Yes, a fast system will copy faster. i'm guessing he failed to provide a decent blocksize so dd was using the default blocksize of 512 bytes. that will slow things down in a hurry. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca ========================================================================
