[LUNI] What's the best way to transfer a large amount of data between hard drives?

[Steve Sennebogen]

I think you want something along these lines.

rsync -auP /mnt/hdb1/home /home

If the operation gets interupted just run it again.  It could take 15
minutes just to get started with 120Gigs though.
(I don't think I messed up the directory specification, but if I did you
might end up with /home/home/** )

Don't use dd if you are planning on using different sized anything.  dd also
probably won't resume nicely for you\

On 10/6/06, skie at dragonsvalley.com <skie at dragonsvalley.com> wrote:
>
> Well, my OS drive has finally decided to die on me.  At first I thought it
> was just general OS instability (I thought I over optimised Gentoo), but I
> realized last night that it was the hard drive.  This morning, it knocked
> like crazy and won't work at all now.  Oh well.  Anyway, I'm getting
> offtopic already.
>
> I'm looking at buying a new larger drive for my /home and using my current
> /home drive as the / drive.  There's almost 120GB of data on this drive
> that I'll need to transfer.  What's the best method of transfering this to
> a new drive?  dd?  rsync?  mv?  I'm thinking that either dd or rsync, but
> I've never really used either very much.  Any input on the pluses/minuses
> of these is appreciated.  Or, if there's another tool you recommend, I'm
> all ears.  Whatever utility is used, it'll have to be command line only.
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