Copying disk from HFS to APFS
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JF Mezei@jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca to
comp.sys.mac.system on Friday, April 16, 2021 03:21:54
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So if I get an SSD to become storage for home drive, being an SSD, it is strongly recommended it be APFS since that cares for SSD peculiarities
much better.
High Sierra.
As it as simple as formating it AFPS, and then using Diskutil to copy
from old to new, then rename old to "DMA5_old", and when I reboot,
anything pointing to /Volumes/DMA5 will work on the SSD?
Just curious if there are special links internally for users that rely
on the actual disk ID/secual number/whatever, or if volume name is all
that it looks at?
If I just wish to copy parts (the "Users" tree) but not the rest, is a
simple Finder drag/drop sufficient? (or cp -R at command line) What are
the gotchas with it? (I know that if Finder fails, you get no log, no
warning, so more tempted to use command line).
If I have finder aliases, I take it that cp at command line will copy
then fine? (even if they aren't processed at command line level). ?
(might be simpler to do a diskutil copy and then delete the directories
I don't want on that drive).
Just trying to look at my options and learn of gotchas.
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