Re: LUG: New hard drive! Need help copying my data over and stuff. - Wed, 05 May 2010 23:25:27 -0400

Subject : Re: LUG: New hard drive! Need help copying my data over and stuff.

From : "Daniel Underwood" <daniel.underwood@ncsu.[redacted]>

Date : Wed, 05 May 2010 23:25:27 -0400

> Also, if that disk only has data, why not just do a "cp
> -r /mnt/olddisk /home/user/newdisk" ?

If you go this route, you should really use rsync, since copying a large
number of big files seems prone to getting interrupted (in my
experience).
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Daniel Underwood
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