[ale] how long will it take?

[Scott Castaline]

It's going to take a while. But rule of thumb is take avg transfer rate 
of ide being used and figure about 75 - 80 % to allow for overhead 
traffic. The process will bring it into memory and the "flush" it back 
out to the destination partition on the drive. Using dd is fine if u r 
rearranging your system and breaking it up into different partitions (ie 
moving your home directories onto a newly created separate 
part/filesystem and then mounting it to the existing home directory on 
the /.) However as was brought up by someone else, you will aslo be 
moving all of the existing file fragmentation, u r probably better off 
using cpio, unless u have veryyy long file names/paths. :-P



Geoffrey wrote:

> Scott Castaline wrote:
>
>> Depends if your drive(s) are SCSI or IDE?
>>
>> If IDE are they on the same channel and how much memory you have as 
>> well as speed of processor.
>
>
> laptop, pIV 2.4GHz, 1gig mem, ide, same channel.
>