How can I transfer files from one disk to another within the same system?

[penguinswithpie]

To start off, I am not a software guy. Most of this stuff is way over my head. I have a very basic machine running FreeNAS and a single 300 GB HDD in it with three folders. I want to replace that HDD with a different one, so I put in both and mounted them (UFS) and everything is set up. Now my question is how do I transfer those three folders from HD1 to HD2 without going over the network? They're transferring through my main PC's network right now and it's only going at 6.5 MB/s. I've googled and I've searched the forum without any luck. If this isn't the appropriate place to post this please let me know and I'll remove it.

 

[cyberjock]

cp command.

for example, cp -R /mnt/disk1 /mnt/disk2

-R says to copy the directory recursively.

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?cp

 

[penguinswithpie]

Thanks for the very quick response CJ. Bear with me, as I'm totally thick in the head, but I simply pop this into the shell?

"cp -R /mnt/samsung /mnt/sams320"

This should work? Or if I want to move just one folder,

"cp -R /mnt/samsung/Music /mnt/sams320"

Would that work?

 

[cyberjock]

Yep. That is assuming your drives are named samsung and sams320 :)

 

[penguinswithpie]

You are the friggin' man. I spent 4 hours googling the solution and you give me the answer in 5 minutes. Blessings upon you noble Cyberjock.