On Mon, 05 Jan 2004 at 18:41 GMT, Travis Crump penned: > Monique Y. Herman wrote: >> On Mon, 05 Jan 2004 at 12:51 GMT, Paul Morgan penned: >>> >>>cp -ax >> >> Okay, having read the man pages, I'm not sure how this does more than >> the -d option that -a includes. -a already stops you from following >> symlinks ... maybe I'm just being dense, but what additional >> situations does the -x cover? >> > > Say you have /usr, /tmp, /var, and /home mounted on seperate > partitions and you want to move just the root partition to a new > partition. you can do 'cp -ax / /mnt/newroot'. If you were to do > just 'cp -a / /mnt/newroot', the contents of /usr, /tmp, /var, and > /home would be copied to the new partition as well. >
Doh! Sure enough, I was being dense. Thanks for the clarification! -- monique -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
