Copy a large amount of files to usb drive

[Richard Johnson]

On Saturday 28 October 2006 06:07, Richard wrote:
> I need to copy a large folder from my drive to another external usb
> drive...
> via the terminal window.... what commands would I use
>
> folder pdf on /dev/hda1
>
> to
>
> /dev/sda1  (usb drive)
>
> ---
>
> Please note: there a bug with copying a large amount of files, in
> nautilus, I did report it.
>
> Thanks -
> Rich

cp -r /dev/hda1/pdf /dev/sda1/

if your usb drive was mounted with super user controls, then issue the same 
came, but use 'sudo'

sudo cp -r /dev/hda1/pdf /dev/sda1/

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