From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 26 9:24:21 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [63.93.4.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60D3C37B41F for ; Sun, 26 May 2002 09:23:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost.wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.12.1/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g4QGNtuF040944; Sun, 26 May 2002 10:23:55 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.12.1/8.12.1/Submit) with ESMTP id g4QGNt63040941; Sun, 26 May 2002 10:23:55 -0600 (MDT)?g (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Sun, 26 May 2002 10:23:54 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block To: "Jack L. Stone" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: copy a harddrive and run that one In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20020526090712.011cea20@mail.sage-one.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 26 May 2002, Jack L. Stone wrote: > On this subject of moving from one HD to another, usually "dump" is > recommended as opposed to other methods. But, I've never seen much on the > amount of time it takes to move the partitions. For instance, does anyone > know how long it takes to move 10GB as an example...from one HD to a second > one???? It's going to be very system dependent: speed of drives, type of hard drive controller, whether the two drives are on the same bus, speed of bus, speed of processor, speed of memory, and so on. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message