Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 12:21:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Kent Ho <kent@graffiti.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9906221220250.99084-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <19990622084402.1824.qmail@graffiti.net>
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On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Kent Ho wrote: > I want to transfer 6gigabyte worth of user account mainly for mail > purposes to a new bigger harddisk. What I want to know is what is the > fastest and safe way to copy the data across? I can do standard cp > but will it be faster to use dd instead. I don't use dd much and cp > seems slow on FreeBSD. It isn't necessarily faster to use dd. The thing you must worry about is perserving ownership and permissions. Use a pipeline of tars or `cp -p' to preserve the permissions. Test first! Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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