Nick Holland wrote: > Chris Zakelj wrote: >> Went back about two years in the MARC archives with the terms 'copy >> drive' (oddly enough, 'dd' itself wouldn't work), and got plenty of >> linux examples on Google (that pretty much say what I propose anyway) >> but no luck... I'm hoping to find a faster way to create an image of one >> drive (a Samsung MP0402H, 40G notebook, to be specific) onto an >> identical drive than using: >> >> # dd if=/dev/rwd0c of=/dev/rwd1c bs=1m >> >> Hardware to be used in the copy is an i586/166, Intel 430VX chipset. I >> vaguely recall hearing that placing the drives on separate IDE channels >> would help, but any and all other pointers, cluesticks, and proddings >> are welcome. > What's the question? "No luck" at what? > What is not working as you expect? > > What you are proposing should work, though you are doing the "more is > better" thing on the blocksize more than needed. 64k or 128k is quite > sufficient. > > It will take a while, and your HW isn't wickedly fast...but I have > used this process myself. > > Nick. Question was, is there a faster way? (about ten off-list replies so far all point to 'no')
"No luck" would be finding relevant hits in either MARC or Google about speeding things up. On the block size, thanks! No sense in biting off more than the hardware can chew. I'm aware that the hardware isn't exactly state of the art, but for making a copy of my server to practice on a non-production rig, it gets the job done.
