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

[Craig Van Tassle]

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The only time I have ever had issues with cp is when I was dealing with a LARGE
number of files (20k or more usualy IMAP folders). And yea he said he was
wanting to move his home drive. That is why I said use cp, for other special
file areas like /dev and /proc yea Use something like tar.

Samir Faci wrote:
> depends, cp has odd behavior when it hits /dev /proc and similar drives.
> 
> If you're moving home... it shouldn't matter, but I had issues with that.
> 
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> Samir
> 
> 
> What about cp -apr /homeold /homenew. That usualy works the best for me
> when I'm
> moving data around drives on the same system.
> 
> 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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