On Mar 9, 2005, at 11:45 PM, Troy and Brian wrote:
I went to that site, and it talks about moving to another partition instead of another hard drive, but I thought I would try it as suggested. After entering the following command: sudo ditto -rsrcFork /Users /Volumes/Hard Drive/Users where Hard Drive is the name of the new hard drive (I know, I am original), the hard drive grunted and whined away, but the Terminal never has returned the prompt after 19 hours and the drive every once and a while accesses a small amount but that is it.
If that command is accurate as you entered it, you just copied your /Users directory into another directory on the *same* drive called /Volumes/Hard and likely ran yourself out of drive space.
Type control-C in the terminal window to kill that command, and I'll wager that doing
ls -l /Volumes shows something like: (this is mine, yours will be different)
drwxrwxrwx 1 johnson admin 4096 23 Feb 09:37 BOOMLET lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 1 8 Mar 11:04 BigWerx -> / drwxr-xr-x 84 johnson unknown 2856 9 Mar 16:20 PocketRocket drwxrwxr-x 25 root admin 850 9 Mar 16:20 Userland drwx------ 1 johnson admin 16384 4 Mar 17:34 prodoracle drwx------ 1 johnson admin 16384 19 Jan 14:49 workgroups drwx------ 1 johnson admin 16384 25 Feb 13:32 www
Where the one that shows a name and -> is your boot drive, and there will entries like this:
drwxr-xr-x n user group size date Hard Drive drwxr-xr-x n user group size date Hard
You cannot use spaces in terminal commands without taking care to tell the system that the space is part of the file name, or else the shell thinks that it is different arguments to the command
what your command actually did:
sudo ditto -rsrcFork /Users /Volumes/Hard
To do it the way you intended you need to do either:
ditto -rsrcFork /Users /Volumes/Hard\ Drive/Users
(Note the \ which is an escape character, meaning, what follows is not a part of the command, but a part of the file or path identifier)
Or
ditto -rsrcFork /Users "/Volumes/Hard Drive/Users"
Because the shell treats anything in " marks as a single string.
Since all Ditto does is *copy* the files, you can delete the /Volumes/Hard directory by doing:
sudo rm -rf /Volumes/Hard
EXACTLY!!!
rm -rf is a dangerous command, coupled with sudo it is THE most dangerous command in unix.
Misused it will gleefully eat your whole hard drive. I've seen it, it isn't pretty.
Then do the ditto command correctly, it should go just fine.
Now, if you DID enter the ditto command correctly, then there's an issue with either your old hard drive or the new one that's causing it to take so long.
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