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Copying data from 6 hard drives to 1 big one, in linux (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 weeks 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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[–] highball@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Shouldn't be any problems. I'd suggest rclone. Great tool. I use it to reliably and safely copy files from my cloud server block storage to two different blob storage locations. rlcone will do anything. A simple cp will probably get it all done for you too, but I don't know how important the data is to you.