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How to keep two local hard drives in sync on Linux?
I have an old hard drive and basically clone it to a new hard drive using Grsync or Timeshift. Because the older hard drive is likelier to fail, I'd like to use the newer one as my in-use hard drive ...
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Should I run a "sync" command before measuring the exact IO times?
I am testing my new algorithm on a disk-based process. For comparison purposes, it is essential to measure the exact time that each [massive] read/write operation has taken.
It seems that on my ...
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sync doesn't terminate after cloning disk using dd
I ran the following command to clone the hard disk (128 GB) on my computer (running Ubuntu 14.04.5, kernel version 3.13.0-110 on 64 bit x86) to a partition on an external drive:
dd if=/dev/sda of=/...
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