[Nottingham] Question: Best command for copying large filesystem between disks?

[Dan Caseley]

cp is the obvious goto. Have you got anything "special" in either file
system like symlinks or hardlinks? Are they both dumb data storage
partitions?

For "special stuff", a one-off rsync might cope better, but that handling
might come with a performance hit (that's conjecture - I've not proof or
experience in performance).

Dan
On 24 May 2013 16:07, "Martin" <martin at ml1.co.uk> wrote:

> Folks,
>
> OK, so I'm doing an upgrade and have a lot of data to copy between disks
> to go from ReiserFS and ext4 to all go onto btrfs.
>
> What's the latest opinion/advice/ideas as to what command to use to do
> that?
>
> Mount the disks and just naively go:
>
> cp -av /mnt/source /mnt/dest
>
> ?
>
>
> Anything 'better' or faster?
>
> Cheers,
> Martin
>
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