[PLUG] Re: Failing Notebook Hard Drives and extreme paranoia (2)

Marvin J. Kosmal lamsokvr at xprt.net
Mon Aug 16 11:35:03 UTC 2004


On Monday 16 August 2004 11:16, Aaron Burt wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 09:35:56AM -0700, Keith Lofstrom wrote:
> > Oops!  Wrong numeral!  Make that:
> >
> > sync ; dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdc bs=1048576
> >                                         ^
> > That is, do 1 MiB at a time.  I should put powers of 2 in spell check.
>
> Or 'bs=1024k' or 'bs=1m'.  Looks like dd knows about GiB, too.
>

So If  bs=1m is good why not bs=2m or bs=3m


Is their a point of diminishing returns?

TIA

Marv




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