On Sat, 2006-08-19 at 13:50 +0200, Meino Christian Cramer wrote: > Hi, > > I am interested, whether there more speedier methods of copying > /dev/sda to /dev/sdb (both are identical hds -- only the serial # > differs :) as the good old > > dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=<cache size of one hd>
dd is about as fast as it gets - reads a bunch of raw sectors, write them somewhere else. alan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
