On 8/23/2016 4:23 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 04:16:42PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:Thanks. I'll try it as soon as copy of DVD#2 ends. What's special about a loop mount in this circumstance? As I read the rsync man page it was pretty similar to cp and it had accepted a plain automount [I'm on Jessie with Mate DE]]rsync vs. cp won't make any difference if the destination directory is empty. In either case, you have to read every byte of input and write every byte of output.
I can see that. I was wondering if rsync was using a better buffering scheme. That might make a difference when copying between rotating media.
rsync is tremendously useful when you've already got a partial copy of the input. It uses heuristics to figure out what it actually needs to copy, and skips the parts you already have.