Re: OT: fastest way to copy one drive to another

2018-10-05 Thread Joerg Lechner via users
Hi, to avoid blocking of folders while copying from Your old system, You can make an installation on an usb flash medium and boot Your old laptop with this flash medium. For my copying processes (I have many of them) I use an old internal disk connected with an usb adapter to my laptop. Old in

Re: OT: finding damaged files on an XFS filesystem (Was Re: OT: fastest way to copy one drive to another)

2018-09-24 Thread Francis . Montagnac
Hi. On Thu, 20 Sep 2018 19:06:08 -0500 Ranjan Maitra wrote: > I am sorry to return to this, but I am still struggling to find out > the answer to how to find files that had bad blocks in my old drive. > To recap, in order to rescue a failing disk with an xfs filesystem, > I used ddrescue to cop

Re: OT: finding damaged files on an XFS filesystem (Was Re: OT: fastest way to copy one drive to another)

2018-09-22 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 22Sep2018 14:09, Roger Heflin wrote: If you have the original disk and can mount the filesystem then do this: create a script like this and call it say /dir/testcatfile: cat $1 > /dev/null RC=$? if [ ${RC} != 0 ] ; then echo "$1 is corrupt" fi Just a shell remark: because the shell consid

Re: OT: finding damaged files on an XFS filesystem (Was Re: OT: fastest way to copy one drive to another)

2018-09-22 Thread Roger Heflin
The find trick works on all filesystems, it only relies on the scsi layer returning the io error back to the cat command. On Sat, Sep 22, 2018 at 3:11 PM Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > We do have the original disk. Just making sure before we do this: does it > matter that it is an xfs system? > > Many

Re: OT: finding damaged files on an XFS filesystem (Was Re: OT: fastest way to copy one drive to another)

2018-09-22 Thread Ranjan Maitra
We do have the original disk. Just making sure before we do this: does it matter that it is an xfs system? Many thanks, Ranjan On Sat, 22 Sep 2018 14:09:02 -0500 Roger Heflin wrote: > If you have the original disk and can mount the filesystem then do this: > > create a script like this and ca

Re: OT: finding damaged files on an XFS filesystem (Was Re: OT: fastest way to copy one drive to another)

2018-09-22 Thread Roger Heflin
If you have the original disk and can mount the filesystem then do this: create a script like this and call it say /dir/testcatfile: cat $1 > /dev/null RC=$? if [ ${RC} != 0 ] ; then echo "$1 is corrupt" fi chmod +x /dir/testcatfile Then do this: find /tmp -type f -exec /dir/testcatfile {} \;

Re: OT: finding damaged files on an XFS filesystem (Was Re: OT: fastest way to copy one drive to another)

2018-09-22 Thread Tony Nelson
On 18-09-22 00:44:17, Ranjan Maitra wrote: ... Is this the right thing to do? Probably. I expect the affected files to contain NULs, which you could search for. Then you'd know that you have the correct files and where the damage is. -- __

Re: OT: finding damaged files on an XFS filesystem (Was Re: OT: fastest way to copy one drive to another)

2018-09-21 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Fri, 21 Sep 2018 14:34:06 +1000 Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 20Sep2018 21:31, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > >On Fri, 21 Sep 2018 12:12:26 +1000 Cameron Simpson wrote: > >> On 20Sep2018 19:06, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > >> >I am sorry to return to this, but I am still struggling to find out the > >> >a

Re: OT: finding damaged files on an XFS filesystem (Was Re: OT: fastest way to copy one drive to another)

2018-09-21 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Fri, 21 Sep 2018 14:34:06 +1000 Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 20Sep2018 21:31, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > >On Fri, 21 Sep 2018 12:12:26 +1000 Cameron Simpson wrote: > >> On 20Sep2018 19:06, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > >> >I am sorry to return to this, but I am still struggling to find out the > >> >a

Re: OT: finding damaged files on an XFS filesystem (Was Re: OT: fastest way to copy one drive to another)

2018-09-20 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 20Sep2018 21:31, Ranjan Maitra wrote: On Fri, 21 Sep 2018 12:12:26 +1000 Cameron Simpson wrote: On 20Sep2018 19:06, Ranjan Maitra wrote: >I am sorry to return to this, but I am still struggling to find out the answer >to how to find files that had bad blocks in my old drive. [...] >ddresc

Re: OT: finding damaged files on an XFS filesystem (Was Re: OT: fastest way to copy one drive to another)

2018-09-20 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Fri, 21 Sep 2018 12:12:26 +1000 Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 20Sep2018 19:06, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > >I am sorry to return to this, but I am still struggling to find out the > >answer > >to how to find files that had bad blocks in my old drive. > > > >To recap, in order to rescue a failing d

Re: OT: finding damaged files on an XFS filesystem (Was Re: OT: fastest way to copy one drive to another)

2018-09-20 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 20Sep2018 19:06, Ranjan Maitra wrote: I am sorry to return to this, but I am still struggling to find out the answer to how to find files that had bad blocks in my old drive. To recap, in order to rescue a failing disk with an xfs filesystem, I used ddrescue to copy the contents to an iden

OT: finding damaged files on an XFS filesystem (Was Re: OT: fastest way to copy one drive to another)

2018-09-20 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Wed, 12 Sep 2018 18:02:58 +1000 Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 12Sep2018 08:35, Cameron Simpson wrote: > >On 11Sep2018 15:11, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > >>There is also xfs_repair: will this utility find the affected files? > > > >Short answer: I don't actually know. It may be more useful to run

Re: OT: fastest way to copy one drive to another

2018-09-13 Thread Michael D. Setzer II
On 13 Sep 2018 at 14:43, Roberto Ragusa wrote: Subject:Re: OT: fastest way to copy one drive to another To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org From: Roberto Ragusa Date sent: Thu, 13 Sep 2018 14:43:51 +0200 Send reply to

Re: OT: fastest way to copy one drive to another

2018-09-13 Thread Roberto Ragusa
On 09/08/2018 01:34 PM, Michael D. Setzer II wrote: > It is a c program that was included with g4l when I took it over, but then I > rewrote it to do only what was actually used by the project. > > It's included with the complete source code on sourceforge with the project > source. This is us

Re: OT: fastest way to copy one drive to another

2018-09-12 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 12Sep2018 08:35, Cameron Simpson wrote: On 11Sep2018 15:11, Ranjan Maitra wrote: There is also xfs_repair: will this utility find the affected files? Short answer: I don't actually know. It may be more useful to run it against the bad drive because if those blocks are file data blocks t

Re: OT: fastest way to copy one drive to another

2018-09-11 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 11Sep2018 15:11, Ranjan Maitra wrote: I wanted to mention that as I mentioned earlier, I used ddrescue and was able to copy the drive. However, the old (source) drive was found to have a few blocks that were bad. From what I understand from reading online, one can find these files. However,

Re: OT: fastest way to copy one drive to another

2018-09-11 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Hi, I wanted to mention that as I mentioned earlier, I used ddrescue and was able to copy the drive. However, the old (source) drive was found to have a few blocks that were bad. From what I understand from reading online, one can find these files. However, my filesystems for these two drives a

Re: OT: fastest way to copy one drive to another

2018-09-11 Thread Michael D. Setzer II
On 10 Sep 2018 at 19:05, wwp wrote: Date sent: Mon, 10 Sep 2018 19:05:13 +0200 From: wwp To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org Subject:Re: OT: fastest way to copy one drive to another Send reply to: Community support for Fedora users > Hello Michael, > > > On

Re: OT: fastest way to copy one drive to another

2018-09-10 Thread wwp
Hello Michael, On Fri, 07 Sep 2018 13:00:17 +1000 "Michael D. Setzer II" wrote: > A number of good replies already, but just to add a note: > I've been the maintainer of the g4l disk imaging project since 2004, and it > basically uses dd for most operations. I'm replying, not only OT to the

Re: OT: fastest way to copy one drive to another

2018-09-09 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Dear friends, I wanted to thank everyone for contributing and helping out. In the end, I decided to go for ddrescue (because I could not find jetcat-mod beyond some old posts of Michael online). In any case, ddrescue copied everything with a meter in around six hours. It also reported a few bad

Re: OT: fastest way to copy one drive to another

2018-09-08 Thread JD
Hello Cameron, +1 On 09/08/2018 04:48 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote: On 09Sep2018 06:45, Michael D. Setzer II wrote: On 8 Sep 2018 at 17:10, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: [...] The link in the footer points to g4l, but nothing in your message mentioning jetcat-mod makes that connection. Only an of

Re: OT: fastest way to copy one drive to another

2018-09-08 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 09Sep2018 06:45, Michael D. Setzer II wrote: On 8 Sep 2018 at 17:10, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: [...] The link in the footer points to g4l, but nothing in your message mentioning jetcat-mod makes that connection. Only an off-list message from you explained it, and you then repeated the info

Re: OT: fastest way to copy one drive to another

2018-09-08 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2018-09-09 at 06:45 +1000, Michael D. Setzer II wrote: > > The link in the footer points to g4l, but nothing in your message > > mentioning jetcat-mod makes that connection. Only an off-list message > > from you explained it, and you then repeated the information on-list. > > > > In my or

Re: OT: fastest way to copy one drive to another

2018-09-08 Thread Michael D. Setzer II
On 8 Sep 2018 at 17:10, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: Subject: Re: OT: fastest way to copy one drive to another From: Patrick O'Callaghan To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org Date sent: Sat, 08 Sep 2018 17:10:05 +0100 Sen

Re: OT: fastest way to copy one drive to another

2018-09-08 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2018-09-08 at 22:43 +1000, Michael D. Setzer II wrote: > On 8 Sep 2018 at 20:23, Ed Greshko wrote: > > From: Ed Greshko > Subject: Re: OT: fastest way to copy one drive to another > To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org > Date sent:Sat, 8 Sep 2018 20:23:45 +08

Re: OT: fastest way to copy one drive to another

2018-09-08 Thread Ed Greshko
On 9/8/18 8:43 PM, Michael D. Setzer II wrote: > The link is in the footer of every message I send??? Do you think people read the footers?   If they did, we wouldn't get people sending "unsubscribe" messages to the list.  :-) And, if they did, do you think they would glean from that where and

Re: OT: fastest way to copy one drive to another

2018-09-08 Thread Michael D. Setzer II
On 8 Sep 2018 at 20:23, Ed Greshko wrote: From: Ed Greshko Subject:Re: OT: fastest way to copy one drive to another To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org Date sent: Sat, 8 Sep 2018 20:23:45 +0800 Send reply to: Community support for Fedora users > On 9/8/18 6:50 PM, Patr

Re: OT: fastest way to copy one drive to another

2018-09-08 Thread Ed Greshko
On 9/8/18 6:50 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Sat, 2018-09-08 at 08:38 +1000, Michael D. Setzer II wrote: >> The jetcat-mod is a filter that monitors the process of the copy, and >> outputs the >> info every 5 seconds with this option. The dialog then displays a running >> graph of >> the pr

Re: OT: fastest way to copy one drive to another

2018-09-08 Thread Michael D. Setzer II
On 8 Sep 2018 at 11:50, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: Subject: Re: OT: fastest way to copy one drive to another From: Patrick O'Callaghan To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org Date sent: Sat, 08 Sep 2018 11:50:08 +0100 Sen

Re: OT: fastest way to copy one drive to another

2018-09-08 Thread Jon Ingason
Den 2018-09-08 kl. 12:50, skrev Patrick O'Callaghan: > On Sat, 2018-09-08 at 08:38 +1000, Michael D. Setzer II wrote: >> The jetcat-mod is a filter that monitors the process of the copy, and >> outputs >> the info every 5 seconds with this option. The dialog then displays a >> running >> graph

Re: OT: fastest way to copy one drive to another

2018-09-08 Thread Michael D. Setzer II
On 8 Sep 2018 at 10:01, Alexander Dalloz wrote: Subject:Re: OT: fastest way to copy one drive to another To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org From: Alexander Dalloz Date sent: Sat, 8 Sep 2018 10:01:11 +0200 Send reply to

Re: OT: fastest way to copy one drive to another

2018-09-08 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2018-09-08 at 08:38 +1000, Michael D. Setzer II wrote: > The jetcat-mod is a filter that monitors the process of the copy, and outputs > the info every 5 seconds with this option. The dialog then displays a running > graph of the progress along with estimated speed. In the clone case ther

Re: OT: fastest way to copy one drive to another

2018-09-08 Thread Alexander Dalloz
Am 08.09.2018 um 00:38 schrieb Michael D. Setzer II: The jetcat-mod is a filter that monitors the process of the copy, and outputs the info every 5 seconds with this option. The dialog then displays a running graph of the progress along with estimated speed. In the clone case there is no compress

Re: OT: fastest way to copy one drive to another

2018-09-07 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2018-09-08 at 08:10 +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 07Sep2018 15:56, JD wrote: > > On 09/07/2018 03:34 PM, Michael D. Setzer II wrote: > > > > On Fri, 7 Sep 2018 16:37:49 -0400 Tony Nelson > > > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > The line for the cloning process in my g4l is like this. >

Re: OT: fastest way to copy one drive to another

2018-09-07 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Subject: Re: OT: fastest way to copy one drive to another > Organization: Mailbox Ignored > Send reply to:users@lists.fedoraproject.org > > > On Fri, 7 Sep 2018 16:37:49 -0400 Tony Nelson > > wrote: > > > > > On 18-09-07 15:48:2

Re: OT: fastest way to copy one drive to another

2018-09-07 Thread Michael D. Setzer II
On 7 Sep 2018 at 15:56, JD wrote: Date sent: Fri, 07 Sep 2018 15:56:21 -0600 From: JD To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org Subject:Re: OT: fastest way to copy one drive to another Send reply to: Community support for Fedora

Re: OT: fastest way to copy one drive to another

2018-09-07 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 07Sep2018 15:56, JD wrote: On 09/07/2018 03:34 PM, Michael D. Setzer II wrote: On Fri, 7 Sep 2018 16:37:49 -0400 Tony Nelson wrote: The line for the cloning process in my g4l is like this. dd bs=1M if=$clonesource 2>/dev/null |jetcat-mod -f 5000 -p $clonesize 2>$progout |dd bs=1M of=$clone

Re: OT: fastest way to copy one drive to another

2018-09-07 Thread JD
copy one drive to another Organization: Mailbox Ignored Send reply to: users@lists.fedoraproject.org On Fri, 7 Sep 2018 16:37:49 -0400 Tony Nelson wrote: On 18-09-07 15:48:23, jdow wrote: dd if=/dev/ of=/dev/ bs=1073741824 conv=sparse,noerror & pid=$! bs=1M Btw, do

Re: OT: fastest way to copy one drive to another

2018-09-07 Thread Michael D. Setzer II
On 7 Sep 2018 at 15:54, Ranjan Maitra wrote: Date sent: Fri, 7 Sep 2018 15:54:59 -0500 From: Ranjan Maitra To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org Subject:Re: OT: fastest way to copy one drive to another Organization: Mailbox

Re: OT: fastest way to copy one drive to another

2018-09-07 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Fri, 7 Sep 2018 16:37:49 -0400 Tony Nelson wrote: > On 18-09-07 15:48:23, jdow wrote: > > > dd if=/dev/ of=/dev/ bs=1073741824 > > conv=sparse,noerror & pid=$! > > bs=1M > Btw, do the drives have to be unmounted? Just making sure. Thanks, Ranjan

Re: OT: fastest way to copy one drive to another

2018-09-07 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Fri, 7 Sep 2018 13:22:35 -0700 Rick Stevens wrote: > On 09/07/2018 12:48 PM, jdow wrote: > > On 20180907 11:49, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > >> On Fri, 7 Sep 2018 14:26:32 -0400 Tim Evans wrote: > >> > >>> On 09/07/2018 02:22 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > >>> > I was doing this and it is definite

Re: OT: fastest way to copy one drive to another

2018-09-07 Thread Tony Nelson
On 18-09-07 15:48:23, jdow wrote: dd if=/dev/ of=/dev/ bs=1073741824 conv=sparse,noerror & pid=$! bs=1M -- TonyN.:' '

Re: OT: fastest way to copy one drive to another

2018-09-07 Thread Rick Stevens
On 09/07/2018 12:48 PM, jdow wrote: > On 20180907 11:49, Ranjan Maitra wrote: >> On Fri, 7 Sep 2018 14:26:32 -0400 Tim Evans wrote: >> >>> On 09/07/2018 02:22 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: >>> I was doing this and it is definitely faster than rsync: cd /drive1 tar cf - uncopieddir1

Re: OT: fastest way to copy one drive to another

2018-09-07 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Fri, 7 Sep 2018 12:48:23 -0700 jdow wrote: > On 20180907 11:49, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > On Fri, 7 Sep 2018 14:26:32 -0400 Tim Evans wrote: > > > >> On 09/07/2018 02:22 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > >> > >>> I was doing this and it is definitely faster than rsync: > >>> > >>> cd /drive1 > >>> t

Re: OT: fastest way to copy one drive to another

2018-09-07 Thread jdow
On 20180907 11:49, Ranjan Maitra wrote: On Fri, 7 Sep 2018 14:26:32 -0400 Tim Evans wrote: On 09/07/2018 02:22 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: I was doing this and it is definitely faster than rsync: cd /drive1 tar cf - uncopieddir1 uncopieddir2 ... | ( cd /drive2 ; tar xf - ) But, after about 16

Re: OT: fastest way to copy one drive to another

2018-09-07 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Fri, 7 Sep 2018 14:26:32 -0400 Tim Evans wrote: > On 09/07/2018 02:22 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > > I was doing this and it is definitely faster than rsync: > > > > cd /drive1 > > tar cf - uncopieddir1 uncopieddir2 ... | ( cd /drive2 ; tar xf - ) > > > > But, after about 16 hours, I am onl

Re: OT: fastest way to copy one drive to another

2018-09-07 Thread Tim Evans
On 09/07/2018 02:22 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: I was doing this and it is definitely faster than rsync: cd /drive1 tar cf - uncopieddir1 uncopieddir2 ... | ( cd /drive2 ; tar xf - ) But, after about 16 hours, I am only 229G in (out of 3.7T). This is much slower than the other thread with USB dr

Re: OT: fastest way to copy one drive to another

2018-09-07 Thread Ranjan Maitra
> > Even faster is a tar pipeline: > > cd /drive1 > tar cf - . | ( cd /drive2; tar xf - ) > > because both cp and rsync do one file at a time. There will inherently be > small > pauses at each file boundary. Actually, rsync might stream a little. > > Using piped tars and many files, parti

Re: OT: fastest way to copy one drive to another

2018-09-07 Thread wwp
Hello Ranjan, On Fri, 7 Sep 2018 05:35:16 -0500 Ranjan Maitra wrote: > On Fri, 7 Sep 2018 07:31:05 +0200 wwp wrote: > > > Hello Ranjan, > > > > > > On Thu, 6 Sep 2018 19:20:37 -0500 Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I have two drives mounted on a F28 system. Both are ident

Re: OT: fastest way to copy one drive to another

2018-09-07 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Fri, 7 Sep 2018 07:31:05 +0200 wwp wrote: > Hello Ranjan, > > > On Thu, 6 Sep 2018 19:20:37 -0500 Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I have two drives mounted on a F28 system. Both are identical 4TB drives. > > The second one is empty. I am concerned about the first one failing so >

Re: OT: fastest way to copy one drive to another

2018-09-06 Thread wwp
Hello Ranjan, On Thu, 6 Sep 2018 19:20:37 -0500 Ranjan Maitra wrote: > Hi, > > I have two drives mounted on a F28 system. Both are identical 4TB drives. The > second one is empty. I am concerned about the first one failing so would like > to copy the contents (which are around 3.7 TB) to the

Re: OT: fastest way to copy one drive to another

2018-09-06 Thread Joe Zeff
On 09/06/2018 08:28 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote: I've used Clonezilla. It's handy for imaging new machines from a master machine (I'm working for someone doing that right now) but otherwise it's rather tedious and is rather aimed at getting data from an arbitrary machine to another over a network

Re: OT: fastest way to copy one drive to another

2018-09-06 Thread Michael D. Setzer II
Ranjan Maitra To: Community support for Fedora users Subject: OT: fastest way to copy one drive to another Organization: Mailbox Ignored Send reply to: users@lists.fedoraproject.org > Hi, > > I have two drives mounted on a F28 sys

Re: OT: fastest way to copy one drive to another

2018-09-06 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 06Sep2018 21:00, Ranjan Maitra wrote: On Thu, 6 Sep 2018 19:07:11 -0600 Joe Zeff wrote: On 09/06/2018 06:20 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > I have two drives mounted on a F28 system. Both are identical 4TB drives. > The second one is empty. I am concerned about the first one failing so > would

Re: OT: fastest way to copy one drive to another

2018-09-06 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 06Sep2018 21:25, Fred Smith wrote: On Fri, Sep 07, 2018 at 11:10:08AM +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote: On 06Sep2018 19:20, Ranjan Maitra wrote: >I have two drives mounted on a F28 system. Both are identical 4TB >drives. The second one is empty. I am concerned about the first >one failing so wo

Re: OT: fastest way to copy one drive to another

2018-09-06 Thread fred roller
On Thu, Sep 6, 2018 at 6:26 PM Fred Smith wrote: On Fri, Sep 07, 2018 at 11:10:08AM +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 06Sep2018 19:20, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > >I have two drives mounted on a F28 system. Both are identical 4TB > >drives. The second one is empty. I am concerned about the first > >

Re: OT: fastest way to copy one drive to another

2018-09-06 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Thu, 6 Sep 2018 19:07:11 -0600 Joe Zeff wrote: > On 09/06/2018 06:20 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have two drives mounted on a F28 system. Both are identical 4TB drives. > > The second one is empty. I am concerned about the first one failing so > > would like to copy the conte

Re: OT: fastest way to copy one drive to another

2018-09-06 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Fri, 7 Sep 2018 11:10:08 +1000 Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 06Sep2018 19:20, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > >I have two drives mounted on a F28 system. Both are identical 4TB drives. > >The > >second one is empty. I am concerned about the first one failing so would > >like > >to copy the contents

Re: OT: fastest way to copy one drive to another

2018-09-06 Thread Fred Smith
On Fri, Sep 07, 2018 at 11:10:08AM +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 06Sep2018 19:20, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > >I have two drives mounted on a F28 system. Both are identical 4TB > >drives. The second one is empty. I am concerned about the first > >one failing so would like to copy the contents (whi

Re: OT: fastest way to copy one drive to another

2018-09-06 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 06Sep2018 19:20, Ranjan Maitra wrote: I have two drives mounted on a F28 system. Both are identical 4TB drives. The second one is empty. I am concerned about the first one failing so would like to copy the contents (which are around 3.7 TB) to the second. What is the fastest way to copy th

Re: OT: fastest way to copy one drive to another

2018-09-06 Thread Joe Zeff
On 09/06/2018 06:20 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: Hi, I have two drives mounted on a F28 system. Both are identical 4TB drives. The second one is empty. I am concerned about the first one failing so would like to copy the contents (which are around 3.7 TB) to the second. What is the fastest way to

OT: fastest way to copy one drive to another

2018-09-06 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Hi, I have two drives mounted on a F28 system. Both are identical 4TB drives. The second one is empty. I am concerned about the first one failing so would like to copy the contents (which are around 3.7 TB) to the second. What is the fastest way to copy the contents of the first drive to the s