[ltp] cloning 14G drives
Mark Kennedy
linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com
Tue, 23 Nov 1999 17:34:26 -0500
Rob Mayoff wrote:
>
> I just used dd to copy my whole 14 GB drive to /dev/null:
>
> # dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/null bs=1024k
> 13481+1 records in
> 13481+1 records out
>
> I'm using the Mandrake 6.0 kernel (2.2.9 + various patches). It's quite
> possible that one of the patches makes this work.
>
> | that's what i thought originally. but empirically, it isn't so.
> | i tried 'dd' and a small perl program (based on sysread). both
> | stopped at approx. the same barrier: 7,560M.
>
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sorry - belay that. i did the same thing with a blocksize of 1k
against a 2nd 14G disk (/dev/hdc), not against /dev/null. hmm....
/mark
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