You misunderstood, and I was not clear enough by saying incredibly slow. I meant that the clonezilla package is an ISO you must burn to cdrom and boot from it. Once booted, and you select to clone disk to disk or partition to partition (which was the case I used), it took it 6 hours to finish cloning a 42 GB partition, of which only 17.5GB were in use (according to clonezilla). The speed of disk write that I tested using dd is about 25 megabytes/s. I got this when I first used dd to clone one partition to the other: time dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/dev/sdc1 bs=128M I chose 128M blocksize to minimize number of calls to read/write System has 2GB of of ram. Even while the dd was running, I had plenty of free ram. The program top showd the process dd with RSS of 128M which means it was not swapping out/in any pages of the dd io buffer. At anyrate, clonezilla is supposed to do the right thing, but I am still not able to boot the resulting disk. It gets as far as the windows logo splash screen then it reboots. -Markus ---------------------------------------- > Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 17:01:34 -0500 > From: lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx > To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: Copying a Hard Disk Containing Windows With Fedora > > Markus Kesaromous wrote: > >> You might also be interested in the free (but unbelievably slow) > > software called CloneZilla : http://clonezilla.sourceforge.net/ > > How are you mounting/mapping the image storage when it is slow? We've > been using the network boot version (DRBL) and it takes about 10 minutes > to network boot a new machine and write the image to disk. Copying in > is somewhat slower. > > -- > Les Mikesell > lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list _________________________________________________________________ Need to know the score, the latest news, or you need your Hotmail®-get your "fix". http://www.msnmobilefix.com/Default.aspx
