Transferring Slabs Of Data To External Disk HDD Full, Reconfiguring, How To?
 

Hi I am using Elyssa r1.

I have run out of hard drive space, and need to move data to the external HDD soon, not one image or document at a time, slabs.

I don't know how to do this, how to move megabytes onto my external store, any know how on offer for this question please?

Well, what you can do is run
This will tell you the disk space of each directory. You can then pick a few that fit within your target size and run

whilst not directly related to this thread,- I have a ext usb hdd that as lots of files on it,
mainly cd & DvD iso's, plus other files.

I move them from that hdd to the internal hdd of a couple of PCs, from time 2 time,
& @ the transfer rate of around 1Mb/s, some of the larger iso files can take over an hour to be copied over. That's just using the click N paste method.

That sounds pretty slow. Is the external drive USB 1?

Nope - but the port on the PC is !
( on all my PCs, actually).

If you want to copy unusual file types then tar (in a pipe, one generating the archive and the other restoring the archive to the new location) will create a copy more faithful the original.

If you need only something basic, check out cp's -a option (equivalent to the -d, -p and -R options combined).