From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 22 12:21:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BF0B15204 for ; Tue, 22 Jun 1999 12:21:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA41838; Tue, 22 Jun 1999 12:21:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 12:21:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Kent Ho Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: <19990622084402.1824.qmail@graffiti.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Kent Ho wrote: > 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. It isn't necessarily faster to use dd. The thing you must worry about is perserving ownership and permissions. Use a pipeline of tars or `cp -p' to preserve the permissions. Test first! Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message