13 May
2010
13 May
'10
10:05 a.m.
On Thursday 13 May 2010 12:29:35 Arun Khan wrote:
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 12:18 PM, Siji Sunny sijisunny@gmail.com
wrote:
Am not sure about whether dd will allow you to clone Windows and Solaris OS.
IIRC, dd does not care about the content on the disk partition, it copies sector by sector (in case of source hdd) to the target.
Also cat is 3x faster than dd. Disadvantage of cat and dd is that blank sectors are also copied, and although bzip will crunch the empty space, reading and writing empty space is still a waste. Nonetheless both dd and cat are most useful.
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