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I want to move a volume from a smaller drive to a larger unformatted one. What is the best way to achieve this? Ideally I'd like the new volume to have the same name as the older volume as it contains user accounts, and is a destination of various symlinks that I have on other volumes.
Update: I used Carbon Copy Cloner in the end and it worked perfectly. I was able to simply rename the new volume in Finder to the same name as the old volume and then powered down and removed the old drive on which the volume lived. When I restarted, the new volume seamlessly worked in place of the old volume.
FYI CCC as well as SuperDuper! do not do bit-by-bit copies. If they did the two disks would not be usable at the same time on the same system because internally they are identified by an id which is stored inside the partitions. Unix tool dd does a bit-by-bit copy (for free as it's part of the OS) and ... here's what happens if you do that: http://superuser.com/questions/485105/unable-to-simultaneously-mount-hdd-and-its-copy-on-osx
– Analog File – 2014-12-02T23:17:00.630