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Re: [SLUG] Imaging Software

To: mcbrider@nospam.zip.com.au
Subject: Re: [SLUG] Imaging Software
From: davidf@nospam.magentatech.com.au (Dave Fitch)
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 09:39:11 +1100 (EST)
Cc: slug@nospam.slug.org.au
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Chuck Dale <bug@nospam.aphid.net>
> Type
> dd if=/dev/hda of=/mnt/win/linux.img
> 
> After a lot of waiting you'll have an image of your hard disk on the
> server.

for a fair bit less waiting add "bs=1024k" on the end of that.
It makes a big difference on solaris (where the default block size
is 512 bytes).

Dave.
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