* François Chenais ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > And what happens if the /var/log and /var/run dirs that can change during > the tar ?
You may end up with a slightly b0rked system (but you knew that already). If your /var was on the root drive, you'll have to delete its contents before mounting new /var -- otherwise nfs-mounted /var will mask the old one, and contents of old /var will still be there, using up disk space. Of course you'd better stop the daemons whose log and run files you're deleting. So you'll do that in a single-user mode, with all daemons stopped anyway, and then /var/run and /var/log won't change during tar. Dima -- We're sysadmins. Sanity happens to other people. -- Chris King