Re: What is the correct and the quickest way to transfer 400G from 1 hd to another?

On Mon, 19 May 2008, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.hardware, in article
<g0seuo$14vp$1@xxxxxxxxxxx>, =SERGE= wrote:

I Have 1 hd ntfs with some 400G of data which Id like to have on ext3. I
suppose I just have fisrt to put 400G on another disk that reformat the
first ext3 and than put them back. What is the best way to do it

-rw-rw-r-- 1 gferg ldp 23639 Aug 21 2000 Hard-Disk-Upgrade
-rw-rw-r-- 1 gferg ldp 79391 Nov 8 2004 Large-Disk-HOWTO

Both documents old, but useful. Section 7 of the 'Hard-Disk-Upgrade' mini
howto discusses moving the data. Moving that much data is going to take
time - lots of it. At 50 Megabytes/second, 400 Gigs is about 2.25 hours
assuming nothing else is happening. When upgrading disks, it's often a
good idea to be running in 'single user' mode, to minimize other tasks
and reduce the chance of someone trying to access either disk at the
same time.

Old guy

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