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pcopy(1)

pcopy1

Multithreaded (raw) disk copying program

Usage

pcopy [options] source destination

Overview

pcopy is a tool for large disk to disk copying.

pcopy is intended to be used when doing large disk (partition) to disk (partition) copying where dd is just too slow (and error prone). It also displays a progress counter while doing the copying.

Options

-s

silent mode

-q<num>

queue size

-u<num>

Update frequency (in seconds)

-b<num>

Buffer size (in KBytes)

-d

Show progress as a series of dots

Author

pcopy was written by Peter Eriksson.

This manpage was written by Anibal Monsalve Salazar for the Debian Project and it is hereby placed by him into the public domain.

From pcopy 1.5-1 in Debian 5.0 (Lenny). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.