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Subject: Re: F9: Using dd to clone a drive...

From: "Mikkel L. Ellertson" <mikkel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:05:22 -0500

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Dan Thurman wrote:


I used dd off the Gnome Live CD, so that neither
drives were mounted nor active. Next I proceeded
to use dd as follows:

dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb

It took approx. 6 hours to copy over 450GB of data.

You would be better off using gparted or clonzilla to do thecopping. With DD, it has to copy every byte. The others understandfile systems and only copy data, not empty space.


Mikkel
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