On Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 04:03:05PM +0200, Patrick Erler wrote: > 1) cp -dpR /var /mnt/drive2 > 2) rm -rf /var > 3) ln -s /mnt/drive2/var / > > what will happen between 2) and 3) when a daemon tries to write > to the logs or the tmp dir? If /var is just a normal directory, and not a mount point, I would do it different. 1) cp -dpR /var /mnt/drive2 2) cp -dpR /var/log /mnt/drive2/var 3) mv /var /oldvar 4) ln -s /mnt/drive2/var / 5) restart all the daemons that do logging, eg. syslogd and possibly some more 6) rm -rf /var This way, the daemons have still a valid file handle to log to, and all you might lose are some seconds of log between steps 3 and 5. And if you put all those commands on one command line you will have only a very short hole. The reason why I'd suggest to re-copy /var/log in step 2) is that the logs that are copied over to the new place are as recent as can be. Alexander Skwar -- Homepage: http://www.digitalprojects.com | http://www.dp.ath.cx Sichere Mail? Mail an [EMAIL PROTECTED] fuer GnuPG Keys ICQ: 7328191
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