On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 15:59, Bret Comstock Waldow wrote: > On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 15:53, Bill Moseley wrote: > > I need to clone a disk. The source is a 3ware hardware RAID 1 array. > > >From Linux it looks like /dev/sda > > <snip> > [snip] > I do it this way: > date; dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/null bs=512; date > 'cause I'm interested in how long it takes...
This might be more useful: time dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/null bs=512 Example: $ time dir total 12720 drwxr-xr-x 94 me me 16384 Jul 28 16:09 ./ drwxrwsr-x 11 dnet dnet 4096 Nov 28 2001 ../ drwx------ 2 me me 4096 Jan 25 2002 .AbiSuite/ -rw-r--r-- 1 me me 59 Aug 7 2002 .Audacity [snip] -rw-r--r-- 1 me me 47 Aug 8 2002 xsm.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 me me 81 May 7 09:23 zap.evo.index.sh real 0m0.558s user 0m0.030s sys 0m0.000s -- +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA | | | | "I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals, I'm a vegetarian | | because I hate vegetables!" | | unknown | +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
