how to use terminal to transfer ubuntu desktop files to D/E drives

Hi,
Are those drives already mounted? Are they local or USB/network attached drives?

those are local drives.I've to format the drive in which ubuntu is
installed in order to reinstall it.
so i need to move my useful files to other local drives in order to
save them from getting deleted.

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In a Terminal type cp file. But you cal also use Nautilus. It's much easier, because it's drag and drop.

Hope it helps.
Peter

Like peter suggested, you can user "cp" command to copy files, especially in form of cp -ar /source/folder/* /dest/folder/
But you can only do that if you have your drives already mounted, which is probably not true in fail-safe mode. Can you confirm you can mount your additional drives?

thanks peter and tomas