[Gllug] DD Ext3 Move (was ping)

[Tethys]

John Hearns writes:

>Use rsync to move data between disks like that - ie. mount /dev/hda5
>first and rsync -avx to the /path-to-some-share

Nope, definitely the wrong tool. Unless things have changed recently,
rsync is horribly slow for an initial copy. It's fine for keeping two
existing trees in sync, but to create the duplicate tree initially, use
something like tar or cpio instead.

Tet
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