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Re: fast method of cloning a hard drive?

From ray <ray@zianet.com>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc
Subject Re: fast method of cloning a hard drive?
Date 2012-02-05 15:15 +0000
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On Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:46:29 +0100, Orson Cart wrote:

> I try to clone a 250 GB disk PATA to a SATA drive with same CHS. I use
> dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/sda
> This is going for hours.  In system monitor, I see one CPU going about
> 30% for 20 seconds, then another CPU goes 30% for 30 seconds. Just
> flip-flop forever. The HD LED is flashing. System is Core 2 Quad with 6
> GiB of RAM. I think if I copied it to a USB disk it would have taken
> less time...

I doubt you have 250gb of data. It would probably have been much faster 
to use partimage to backup the partition(s) to an external usb drive and 
then restore to the new one.

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fast method of cloning a hard drive? "Orson Cart" <ex-privat@parts.org> - 2012-02-05 13:46 +0100
  Re: fast method of cloning a hard drive? John Reiser <jreiserfl@comcast.net> - 2012-02-05 06:59 -0800
    Re: fast method of cloning a hard drive? unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2012-02-06 01:03 +0000
      Re: fast method of cloning a hard drive? patrick <0001patrick@gmail.com> - 2012-02-06 21:04 +0000
        Re: fast method of cloning a hard drive? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2012-02-06 21:50 +0000
        Re: fast method of cloning a hard drive? unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2012-02-07 09:43 +0000
          Re: fast method of cloning a hard drive? patrick <0001patrick@gmail.com> - 2012-02-21 04:20 +0000
            Re: fast method of cloning a hard drive? unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2012-02-21 05:40 +0000
    Re: fast method of cloning a hard drive? "Orson Cart" <ex-privat@parts.org> - 2012-02-06 14:11 +0100
  Re: fast method of cloning a hard drive? ray <ray@zianet.com> - 2012-02-05 15:15 +0000
  Re: fast method of cloning a hard drive? Dan C <youmustbejoking@lan.invalid> - 2012-02-05 16:30 +0000
  Re: fast method of cloning a hard drive? Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2012-02-05 10:55 -0600
    Re: fast method of cloning a hard drive? Johann Klammer <klammerj@NOSPAM.a1.net> - 2012-02-06 03:17 +0100
    Re: fast method of cloning a hard drive? Pascal Hambourg <boite-a-spam@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2012-02-06 23:38 +0100
      Re: fast method of cloning a hard drive? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2012-02-06 23:01 +0000
        Re: fast method of cloning a hard drive? Pascal Hambourg <boite-a-spam@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2012-02-07 00:17 +0100
          Re: fast method of cloning a hard drive? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2012-02-07 01:39 +0000
    Re: fast method of cloning a hard drive? Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2012-02-06 23:50 +0000
      Re: fast method of cloning a hard drive? Pascal Hambourg <boite-a-spam@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2012-02-21 21:27 +0100

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