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On Mon, 14 Jun 2010, kevin wrote:
I would use Rsync something like rsync -avz /home/user/ /seconddisk/home/firtdiskuser/ press return and watch it fly across you can omit stuff you don't need ie --exclude "*~"
I use rsync a lot, but lets not complicate things here. For doing a one-off copy from one partition/disk to another, go back to basics and just do this:
cp -a /home/user /seconddiskIt's much faster than rsync. Your paramaters 'z' asks it to compress and that's just going to waaste even more cpu time than rsync already does.
One issue you may face is copying links - hard or symbolic. You need the -H flag in rsync to cope with hard links. cp will just copy the files, however you're unlikely to have hard links in your /home area, but you never know!
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