Hi all, I thought I was being very careful, but this didn't work like I'd hoped.
Basically I want to move my /usr fs from one disk to another - the first will eventually be repartitioned, to use LVM and ReiserFS. Other filesystems will follow. So I used this command from / (in single user mode - that's what "init 1" does, right?): tar -c --atime-preserve -l usr |tar -C /spareide -x -v --atime-preserve --preserve --same-owner I wasn't entirely clear from the man page which options were intended for use with creating and which with extracting the archive, so when in doubt I used it for both. Now, my understanding was that the "-C /spareide" should have started the extraction from where my nice empty filesystem was mounted on /spareide/usr - but this didn't happen. It appears to have extracted over itself in /usr, giving lots of warnings about files changing while they were being read (not all of them - maybe only the big ones?), and changing dates on some of them (again not all - dunno why) as well. I'm guessing I've made some fairly fundamental mistake somewhere - any suggestions? My other thought was that it would be nice to do all this with both filesystems unmounted - are there tools for that? Many thanks, Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
