On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 12:26, Martin<martin at ml1.co.uk> wrote: > Or? 1) forget about cp. 2) use either: rsync -a /mnt/old_drive /mnt/new_drive 3) or if you want to move the content to another machine: find /mnt/old_drive -print0 | cpio -o0 > temp.cpio