[ale] how long will it take?

[Robert.L.Harris at rdlg.net (Robert L. Harris)]

If you don't need a bit per bit copy you may really want to use rsync or
cpio instead.  They'll "defrag" the drive as well as skip open space.
On a slow drive or controller that can take a good while.

Thus spake Geoffrey (esoteric at 3times25.net):

> Anyone have any idea how long it will take to do something like:
> 
> dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/dev/hda12
> 
> Where /dev/hda1 is 7 gig?
> 
> -- 
> Until later, Geoffrey
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