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From: "Kent Ho" <kent@graffiti.net>
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Hi,

I want to transfer 6gigabyte worth of user account mainly for mail purposes to a new bigger harddisk.  What I want to know is what is the fastest and safe way to copy the data across?  I can do standard cp but will it be faster to use dd instead.  I don't use dd much and cp seems slow on FreeBSD.

Recommendation and opinions welcome..

many thanks

Kent




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