[ale] dd - how long should it take?

[John M Trostel]

Take a look at dcfldd.  This is a dd variant which may present you with
more ongoing stats than a plain dd will.

Source code is available at sourceforge.net/projects/biatchux/

On Fri, 2004-03-05 at 15:30, ale-request at ale.org wrote:

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> From: "J.M. Taylor" <jtaylor at onlinea.com>
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> Greetings ALErs
> 
> Anybody ever been crazy/desperate enough to dd a 9gb SCSI disk?
> We've had a dd going on a Sun 450 for hours now.  dd as far as I know 
> doesn't offer verbose, so it's just quietly sitting there.  *Something* is 
> happening between the disks b/c the little green lights are flickering on 
> them.  
> 
> This has 4 400Mhz processors (but during dd only one would be used, 
> afaik).  No idea the amount of ram, except that it's over 1Gb.  We used a 
> 1024 block size..the disk we're dd'ing from is giving us some going-bad 
> warnings so we don't want to access it too much for fear of it outright 
> dying.  Any advice on how long this should take would be...calming. :)
> 
> Thanks
> jenn
> 
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> Jenn Taylor
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