On 2008-12-19 16:53 +0100, rjubio wrote: > Sven Joachim wrote: >> On 2008-12-19 07:36 +0100, rjubio wrote: >> >> >>> How long does a dd command take for an 80 GB IDE hd? >>> >> >> Not long ago I zeroed out the disk of my old machine because I wanted to >> sell it, and that took 80 GB /(53 MiB/s) = 25 minutes. >> >> Sven >> >> >> > I dont get it. I've been getting 3.3 MiB/s on my machine. And this has > some pretty good specs because we will use this as a production > machine.
Probably that's because you're using a too small block size then. Try with something like 10M, the dd default of just 512 bytes seems to slow things down, since it writes each sector separately. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
