On Saturday 30 Jul 2011 01:32:07 Dale wrote: > Alex Schuster wrote: > > Am 30.07.2011 01:06, schrieb Dale: > >> I'm just curious as to how much longer dd is going to take. I wish it > >> has some sort of a progress bar or something. :/
dcfldd has a progress indicator AFAIR. To make sure that your dd speed is maxed out for the drive that you are dd-ing on, you need to run some tests with different block sizes: dd if=/dev/zero bs=1024 count=1000000 of=/tmp/1G_file.txt dd if=/dev/zero bs=2048 count=500000 of=/tmp/1G_file.txt dd if=/dev/zero bs=4096 count=250000 of=/tmp/1G_file.txt dd if=/dev/zero bs=8192 count=125000 of=/tmp/1G_file.txt On my 500G drive 2048 gives the best speed. Then set bs=2048 or whatever is faster on yours when you run the dd command. -- Regards, Mick
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