PeterKar

I've been reformatting/copying my RFS drives to XFS for several days now and I've been doing it on a windows box in the basement connected to my server. It does a few other things for me so I just have a telnet window open to the server and do everything from there. No timeouts to worry about and if I need to reboot my main box in the office, no big deal. I just VNC into it when I need to. For step 7, I use the following: (assuming I'm copying from disk1 to a new formatted and empty disk2) rsync -arv /mnt/disk1/ /mnt/disk2 (I use -a because for me preserving time/date stamps is important.) Then, I open two command prompts on a windows machine. On the first one, I execute: dir \\tower\disk1 /s and on the second one: dir \\tower\disk2 /s When the directory listings are done, at the bottom of each command line window I should see an identical number of files and directories and the byte count should be identical. Now I know everything has at least copied over Back to my telnet session I then do this to verify the copy: (step diff -rq /mnt/disk1 /mnt/disk2 But before I do that, I put a couple of files with the same name that I know will be different into to the same directories on both disks. This way, I know I should see my "seed files" show up and generate an error. If anything, it give me some confidence that the process is working. Yes, this will take longer but for me, the extra checks and balances are worth it.