Hello, If I want to clone a hard disk drive using "dd", can I just use an arbitrarily large block size to speed up the process?
For example, dd if=/dev/hda bs=32768k of=/dev/hdc or is the block size dependent on something and has to be carefully chosen? What block size should I choose to clone a 40GB drive? If the number is dependent on the hard drive, how can I get this info from a running system without shutting it down and manually looking at the hard drive? My system is Debian Woody. Thanks, Guru __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]