Re: [SLUG] transferring data between drives

From: Eben King (eben01@verizon.net)
Date: Fri Oct 24 2008 - 22:03:11 EDT


On Sat, 25 Oct 2008, Ron Youvan wrote:

>> I'm upgrading hard drives (250 GB to 640 GB) when the new ones arrive in a
>> few days. Since the sizes differ, I can't just copy the whole drive over
>> and be done with it.
>
> Why not range "your directories" on the source in mc, press F5 and go do
> something for an hour or two?

What's that? Will it partition the disk, format the partitions, populate
them appropriately, and make the disk bootable?

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