[CentOS] A questiong about replacing my failing drive
Mark Weaver
mdw1982 at mdw1982.com
Sun Jun 12 16:45:50 UTC 2005
Collins Richey wrote:
> On 6/12/05, Mark Weaver <mdw1982 at mdw1982.com> wrote:
>
>>Steve Huff wrote:
>>
>
>>>3. dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/sdc bs=1024 (source disk is /dev/sdb, target
>>>is /dev/sdc)
>>>
>
>
> Don't you get better performance with a larger bs=nnnn value? I don't
> have a clue what the optimum value should be.
>
I just think it totally rocks that you can specify the block size
instead of being locked into a 512 block size.
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Mark
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