[ale] how long will it take?

[esoteric at 3times25.net (Geoffrey)]

Jim Popovitch wrote:
> 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.  ;)

dd if=/dev/hda1 |tee papertrail | dd of=/dev/hda12; lpr papertrail

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Until later, Geoffrey