Speed Up Ubuntu Deployment

[Joel Bryan Juliano]

or is it possible to copy disk-to-disk in gparted?

On 6/8/06, Alan McKinnon <alan at linuxholdings.co.za> wrote:
>
> On Thursday 08 June 2006 14:09, Joel Bryan Juliano wrote:
> > I'm using the old deployment trick, "dd", but It takes 4500+
> > seconds to finish. Is there a way to make dd copy much faster?
>
> Are hda and hdb on the same IDE channel as a master and slave? Doing
> big read/write operation like that on the same cable will slow things
> down a bit. Try rig it so the drives are on different channels and
> see what you get
>
> > I use # dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=2M, I like to try setting 2M
> > to higher values, would it change the speed of copying the whole
> > hard drive?
>
> Not really. Once the drive cache is full, it's full. There's then no
> further point in trying to grab bigger blocks than that. Much better
> to let the kernel do the buffering for you - it has lots of RAM to
> play with
>
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