On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 12:58:41PM -0400, Gerard Ceraso wrote: > I have a hard drive that is going bad so I want to copy it from the old > hard drive to the new one, same hd and everything. I was wondering which > was faster doing dd if=/dev/hdc of=/dev/hda or mounting each partition > and and just using cp.
dd copies the entire drive, including all the blank space. cp won't copy the blank bits, so that's faster. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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