@RegalBeagle @Justicar
"double nigger" is a goated insult, stealing that.
dd is usually my go-to too, but as you say, it will copy the entire contents of the source drive, including unused space, to the destination drive resulting in an image that contains the full source drive layout.
You can fuck around with range/count sectors but honestly, it's best just to use rsync for a data-mirror at that point. Plus, rsync gives you small, quick incremental diffs on subsequent use. Win.
@UncleIroh @Justicar I'll make note of this. I ended up just copy/pasting the files between drives minus a few files for the size differences.
Still annoyed that apparently 128GB can mean any size from 116 to 117 GiB. I thought we standardized this shit years ago.
@RegalBeagle @Justicar
Never go full double nigger, use rsync!
That was as fun as I knew it would be.
@RegalBeagle @Justicar
Something like this for an rsync mirror:
args=(
"--archive"
"--verbose"
"--human-readable"
"--compress"
"--ignore-existing"
"--delete"
"--progress"
)
rsync "${args[@]}" "${path_src}" "${path_dest}"
Done.