On Wednesday 03 February 2010 11:41:56 am Sampsa Riikonen wrote:
Dear All,
Thank you for your replies to my question. Here is a summary:
The question was, how to copy an entire hard disk to another hard disk in a usb box most conveniently.. the command is:
dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=X
(X=blocksize).
<Snip> I have copied 500GB drives using dd with bs=8M (based on some initial testing) which takes about 3-4 hours to complete. That was between two sata drives however, no usb involved. It will certainly be slower with usb, though I am not sure how much. BTW, you can monitor dd progress as it is copying. See for example <http://linuxcommando.blogspot.com/2008/06/show-progress-during-dd-copy.html> Hope this helps. -- Don -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org