[Nottingham] File copying filesystem -> filesystem

[Martin]

Mike Cardwell wrote:
> Jim Moore wrote:
> 
>> my usual method is to run an ex-platform sector copying program, such
>> as that found as part of Acronis Trueimage. This copies the partition
>> sector-by-sector - which means you end up with the data and allocation
>> tables/journals/etc written to the destination drive in the same
>> sector order as the original. Fastest way I know of doing things,

There is also "dd", or "nc" if you're going over a network. You might 
also gain a speedup if you use "double buffering" by doing such as:

dd if=/dev/sdX | dd bs=1M | dd bs=1M | dd of=/dev/sdY


> That would copy the file system. He's trying to move files from one file 
> system to a different one.

Indeed so.


Cheers,
Martin

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