On 8 Sep 2018 at 20:23, Ed Greshko wrote: From: Ed Greshko <ed.gres...@greshko.com> Subject: Re: OT: fastest way to copy one drive to another To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org Date sent: Sat, 8 Sep 2018 20:23:45 +0800 Send reply to: Community support for Fedora users <users@lists.fedoraproject.org>
> On 9/8/18 6:50 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Sat, 2018-09-08 at 08:38 +1000, Michael D. Setzer II wrote: > >> The jetcat-mod is a filter that monitors the process of the copy, and > >> outputs the > >> info every 5 seconds with this option. The dialog then displays a running > >> graph of > >> the progress along with estimated speed. In the clone case there is no > >> compression, so the rate is generally the physical speed of disk. With > >> image files > >> that are compressed, the effective speed can vary greatly depending on how > >> much > >> the data was compressed. Mostly just gives progress versus just waiting > >> for the dd > >> command to finish. > > The only results I see from Google refer to actual jet engines, so I ask > > again, > > where does this come from? > > I know what you mean. > > I avoid using commands/tools/utilities that aren't part of the Fedora > distributions > when answering queries on the mailing list. > > The exception would be commands/tools/utilities which are easily installed > from other > well-known repos. I try and > take care to mention the repo they can been installed from. > > I try my best not to keep people guessing. And if I do, I give the links to > where > something can be found. > The link is in the footer of every message I send??? Joined a Fedora Mentoring list long ago, but it must have been a dead list. Got a welcome message, but then message to list gave no responses. > One of the not so nice things I've seen happen is people, not the most > experienced, > install non-standard stuff on their systems and then forget they've done it. > And > then they complain when stuff that worked for them before no longer works as > an > upgrade changes a library that is no longer compatible. > > > > > +------------------------------------------------------------+ Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor (Retired) mailto:mi...@guam.net mailto:msetze...@gmail.com Guam - Where America's Day Begins G4L Disk Imaging Project maintainer http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/ +------------------------------------------------------------+ http://setiathome.berkeley.edu (Original) Number of Seti Units Returned: 19,471 Processing time: 32 years, 290 days, 12 hours, 58 minutes (Total Hours: 287,489) BOINC@HOME CREDITS ROSETTA 65778205.643098 | ABC 16613838.513356 SETI 109514958.178814 | EINSTEIN 141374481.499240 _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
