On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 11:41 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > <snip> > Yes, dd is actually pretty slow in wall clock time. Where it wins is in > human time since you just type a short command line and go away, and it > duplicates any setup work you've done in addition too installing the > packages. But it's not as slow as most think. They just don't take advantage of capabilities, like bs=16384. This makes a *huge* difference in both system overhead and wall clock time. -- Bill