I am talking about 900 GB of data. I want to copy/paste, or whatever from one hdd to another. I have tried Nemo, but it freezes at about 32GB. I am wondering if doing it in the cl rather than a file manager would give better results.
YO!
rsync is the fastest of dem all bro!
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Yea. I ve been reading the same thing. I ve never used rsync. The cl seems to be the way regardless. I am currently trying this dd command:
sudo dd if=/dev/sda1 | pv | sudo dd of=/dev/sdb1
Looks like it will be a while.
I’m not familiar with the syntax you are using, but from your use of pv I guess you want to see the progress of the command.
The syntax I would use is:
dd if=name-of-input-file/device of=name-of-output-file/device status=progress
so your example would become:
sudo dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/dev/sdb1 status=progress
And you can throw in some extra parameters to determine block size etc…
By the way: I’ve been known to use a GUI with rsync:
https://ostechnix.com/grsync-a-simple-graphical-frontend-for-rsync/
Worked well from what I remember.
It’s in extra.
extra/grsync 1.3.1-2 0,59 MiB 0,15 MiB