Question: 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.
Answer: Try Carbon Copy Cloner. It does a bit-by-bit copy, which should guarantee that it is an EXACT copy. I hope this helps.