Man Linux: Main Page and Category List

NAME

       pcopy - multithreaded (raw) disk copying program

SYNOPSIS

       pcopy [options] source destination

DESCRIPTION

       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

SEE ALSO

       dd(1).

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.