I have been using rsync to copy files for some time. My understanding is that rsync is faster than cp when some of the files to transfer are already in the destination directory, transferring only the incremental difference (i.e. the "deltas").

If this is correct, would there be any advantage to using rsync to moving the contents of a folder A, to say, a folder B, with B being empty?

The folder A has close to 1TB of data (and millions of files in it). The transfer would be done over a local network (A and B being on different filesystems on a supercomputer).

Aside from that, what flags should I use to ask rsync to move (not copy) files from A to B (i.e. to delete A when the transfer has successfully finished)?

I have been using rsync to copy files for some time. My understanding is that rsync is faster than cp when some of the files to transfer are already in the destination directory, transferring only the incremental difference (i.e. the "deltas").

If this is correct, would there be any advantage to using rsync to moving the contents of a folder A, to say, a folder B, with B being empty?

The folder A has close to 1TB of data (and millions of files in it). The transfer would be done over a local network (A and B being on different filesystems, both mounted on a supercomputer, e.g. A is NFS and B is lustre).

Aside from that, what flags should I use to ask rsync to move (not copy) files from A to B (i.e. to delete A when the transfer has successfully finished)?

I have been using rsync to copy files for some time. My understanding is that rsync is faster than cp when some of the files to transfer are already in the destination directory, transferring only the incremental difference (i.e. the "deltas").

If this is correct, would there be any advantage to using rsync to moving the contents of a folder A, to say, a folder B, with B being empty?

The folder A has close to 1TB of data (and millions of files in it). The transfer would be done over a local network (A and B being on different filesystems on a supercomputer).

Also, what flags should I use to ask rsync to move (not copy) files from A to B (i.e. to delete A when the transfer has successfully finished)?

I have been using rsync to copy files for some time. My understanding is that rsync is faster than cp when some of the files to transfer are already in the destination directory, transferring only the incremental difference (i.e. the "deltas").

If this is correct, would there be any advantage to using rsync to moving the contents of a folder A, to say, a folder B, with B being empty?

The folder A has close to 1TB of data (and millions of files in it). The transfer would be done over a local network (A and B being on different filesystems on a supercomputer).

Aside from that, what flags should I use to ask rsync to move (not copy) files from A to B (i.e. to delete A when the transfer has successfully finished)?