[SOLVED] {dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/sda &} duplicates terabyte drives with ease.

Apr 09, 2017 20 Replies

That too. Having thought about the whole process of copying file-by-file, ignore the file fragmentation thing as insignificant, unless all the file system overhead is cached in RAM and only occasionally written to disk. :-) (And directory fragmentation is probably a bigger factor anyway.)

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