What about tools made for the job, such as Super Duper or Carbon Copy
Cloner?
On 3/3/2026 6:30 AM, 'Jason J.G. White' via MacVisionaries wrote:
Steve Matzura <[email protected]> wrote:
I have a 2 TB drive that needs replacing. It’s too small. I have a
replacement already to go, but I want to copy, or clone, the contents
of the original drive onto the new one which is twice the old ones
size. What’s the best application for doing this?
Why not a tool such as rsync, or if you prefer, just select the
top-level directories from the original drive in the Finder and copy
them to the top-level directory of the new drive?
What you need is a file system-level copy, not a sector-by-sector
copying of the drive.
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