Fnord.

1. Never try to move to a new hard drive while distracted by an infant.
2. Never assume that cp -a is as accurate a copy as, say, tar -p
3. Or rsync
4. Never power off the machine in frustration over the new drive, assuming that the data on the old will be unaffected. There may be connected RAID volumes that will Not Like This a Bit.
5. Never try to migrate ~240GB of data in 30 minutes. It won’t end well.

More downtime soon, after I do a correct transfer and try again.

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