dd use

[Markus Hitter]

Am 28.12.2008 um 14:32 schrieb Nils Kassube:

> Tony Arnold wrote:
>> mkdir /mnt/sdb1
>> mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/sdb1
>> dd if /dev/sda1 of /mnt/sdb1/<filename>
>>
>> should do it.
>
> No, the dd syntax would be
>
> dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/mnt/sdb1/<filename>

Additionally, you likely want the bs option to speed things up ...

dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/mnt/sdb1/<filename> bs=1m

... and compress the stuff along the way:

dd if=/dev/sda1 bs=1m | gzip -c > /mnt/sdb1/<filename>.gz


Markus

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