On Tue 23 Aug 2016 at 17:23:31 (-0400), 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.
Does it make any difference if the DVD drive and the hard drive are master and slave on the same IDE controller? Cheers, David.
