[ale] how long will it take?

[jimpop at yahoo.com (Jim Popovitch)]

On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 11:51 -0500, Geoffrey wrote:
> 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?
> 

It all depends on drive speed and capabilities (DMA/UDMA/cache/etc).  I
did similar for a 2 gig partition a few days ago and it only took about
5 or 10 minutes.

WARNING: Using dd, without a paper receipt, leaves open the possibility
that someone could fraudulently inject/subtract packets in the data
stream resulting in skewed results.  ;)

-Jim P.