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Copying data from 6 hard drives to 1 big one, in linux (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 month ago by applemao@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.world
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Maybe a dumb question. But is this just a matter of copying over? I have 6 hdds I've accumulated and want all the data from them on one big drive now. They are all ntfs as they are from windows, but I am going to boot from my mint drive to move the files, just so windows isnt running or accessing anything on the drives while I move the data. I'm transitioning to full linux, but I want to consolidate these drives first. I dont want to clone drives, so no dd here, just copying files from 6 different drives onto 1.

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[โ€“] catloaf@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You might want to use rsync rather than a GUI file browser. I don't know if it'll be faster, but it'll be more reliable, especially if you want to stop and restart it, or just plain restart it if it fails for some reason.

[โ€“] tal@lemmy.today 2 points 1 month ago

Yeah, it'll be faster if you need to restart partway through, since rsync won't overwrite already-copied data. But outside of that, cp should be fine.

If retaining original file modification times is desired, then the -a flag, to either cp or rsync, is valuable, since otherwise, you'll update the file modification times to the time of the copy.