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Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Thank you, I've booted to a LiveCD I'm in the middle of copying |
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> everything from the old drive to the new drive with: |
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> cp -ax /olddrive/* /newdrive/ |
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"cp" neither has a "-a" nor a "-x" option. Are you talking abut "gcp"? |
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> but it's taking hours. Both drives are SATAII and there is about |
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> 250GB of data to transfer. The CD spins periodically, the hard disk |
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> activity light stays lit, and I can hear the old drive working |
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> periodically, but I'm thinking this is too long. |
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The fastest and most correct way to copy directory trees is to use star |
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because star forks into two processes and decouples the read process |
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from the write process. |
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star -copy -p -acl -sparse -xdot -time -C /olddrive . /newdrive |
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If you have plenty of RAM, give star half of the RAM as FIFO using the fs= |
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option (e.g. fs=256M). |
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If your new filesystem is not optimized for write speed, you may like to add |
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the -no-fsync option but then star cannot tell you whether the copy was |
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successful (BTW: GNU tar never calls fsync(2) and thus never may grant a |
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successful copy). |
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ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/star/ |
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Jörg |
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EMail:joerg@××××××××××××××××××××××××.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin |
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js@××××××××××××.de (uni) |
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joerg.schilling@××××××××××××××××.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ |
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URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily |
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