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to: AHEM A RIVET`S SHOT
from: RAYMOND WIKER
date: 2017-04-09 18:16:00
subject: Re: [SOLVED] {dd if=/dev/

Ahem A Rivet's Shot  writes:

> On Sat, 08 Apr 2017 19:46:53 -0700
> "DisneyWizard the Fantasmic!"  wrote:
>
>> [SOLVED] {dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/sda &} duplicates terabyte drives.
>
>  It will go much faster with bs=64k added to the arguments.

Probably even faster with (a little higher) blocks... and using raw
devices (/dev/rsd{a,b}) may also help.

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