[geeks] Disk images

[Atom]

Mike Meredith wrote:

>On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 16:01:53 -0500, Atom wrote:
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>>Weird. Right now I am using an external firewire chassie that I
>>created a 5gb diskimage with. dd if=/dev/sda of=~/mdtimage.img
>>and restore it with dd if=mdtimage.img of=/dev/sda
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>Dumb question, but have you tried setting bs to something bigger
>than 512 ? On a mirrored SCSI disk, the default block size generates a
>50Mbyte file in about 2.5s; using 'bs=1024k' generates the 50Mbyte file
>in less than a second.
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hrmz i'll give it a shot. might be the issue all along. thanks.