[Novalug] OT: Disk cloning - new hard drive in workstation [IBM/Fujitsu]

Bob Copeland me@bobcopeland.com
Thu Sep 11 13:52:34 EDT 2008


On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 4:42 PM, Paul <opensource@unixoses.com> wrote:
> That's true with DD.  You could do a cat /dev/zero /tmp/file, the rm
> /tmp/file, but that adds time also.  But I was referring to the command
> "dump" which is independent of disk size, and will only copy the contents,
> but is much faster than tar.

Ah, thanks for the clarification.

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