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  • Unfortunately, it's not available on the live CD I'm using to do the cloning (and besides, I'm halfway through and I'd rather not stop it only to change the command line). Nice to know, though. Commented Feb 29, 2012 at 20:44
  • It will (marginally) slow down the transfer, however. Commented Feb 29, 2012 at 21:57
  • @ChrisDown Perhaps a small amount, I don't think it'll be the bottleneck. Commented Feb 29, 2012 at 22:03
  • That would depend on the hardware in use. I could imagine it happening on an SSD with an old-ish machine. Commented Feb 29, 2012 at 22:18
  • @ChrisDown I was thinking of gzip as the bottleneck, which would almost certainly be the case on an older machine. Commented Feb 29, 2012 at 22:29