Speed Up Ubuntu Deployment

[Alan McKinnon]

On Thursday 08 June 2006 14:09, Joel Bryan Juliano wrote:
> I'm using the old deployment trick, "dd", but It takes 4500+
> seconds to finish. Is there a way to make dd copy much faster?

Are hda and hdb on the same IDE channel as a master and slave? Doing 
big read/write operation like that on the same cable will slow things 
down a bit. Try rig it so the drives are on different channels and 
see what you get

> I use # dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=2M, I like to try setting 2M
> to higher values, would it change the speed of copying the whole
> hard drive?

Not really. Once the drive cache is full, it's full. There's then no 
further point in trying to grab bigger blocks than that. Much better 
to let the kernel do the buffering for you - it has lots of RAM to 
play with

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Alan McKinnon
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