From: Bhushan Tiwari lihnucs@yahoo.com
yes, dd can be used for that purpose, but it will take a lot of time.
Ghost works very fast. I dont know anyother way to do that.
a review i read in some magazine, about 6 months ago, thought dd was the best performer from among a host of these tools (cannot find the link unfortunately). Maybe the speed issue can be addressed by simply increasing the block copy size. Pradeep