Maybe a dumb question. But is this just a matter of copying over? I have 6 hdds I’ve accumulated and want all the data from them on one big drive now. They are all ntfs as they are from windows, but I am going to boot from my mint drive to move the files, just so windows isnt running or accessing anything on the drives while I move the data. I’m transitioning to full linux, but I want to consolidate these drives first. I dont want to clone drives, so no dd here, just copying files from 6 different drives onto 1.

  • highball@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Shouldn’t be any problems. I’d suggest rclone. Great tool. I use it to reliably and safely copy files from my cloud server block storage to two different blob storage locations. rlcone will do anything. A simple cp will probably get it all done for you too, but I don’t know how important the data is to you.