Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!news.glorb.com!news.astraweb.com!border5.newsrouter.astraweb.com!not-for-mail From: Dan C Subject: Re: fast method of cloning a hard drive? Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc References: <4f2e7a25$1@x-privat.org> Organization: Dunedain X-Editor: vim 7.3.154 X-OS-Version: Slackware Linux 13.37 (generic 2.6.37.6-smp) User-Agent: Pan/0.135 (Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea; GIT 30dc37b master) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: 05 Feb 2012 16:30:28 GMT Lines: 17 NNTP-Posting-Host: 0aeabf72.news.astraweb.com X-Trace: DXC=Co[OkYYFTD:fB5aLm@JgRj5<7K10H:ImSW>3O6 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.os.linux.misc:4121 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... Clonezilla. -- "Ubuntu" -- an African word, meaning "Slackware is too hard for me". "Bother!" said Pooh, as Lorena Bobbitt tied him to the bed. Usenet Improvement Project: http://twovoyagers.com/improve-usenet.org/ Thanks, Obama: http://brandybuck.site40.net/pics/politica/thanks.jpg