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On Sunday 16 November 2003 07:15, Jason Stubbs wrote:

> Actually, just thinking - it doesn't preserve modification times which may
> be a problem with /var. Why not just use rsync?
>
> rsync -a /mnt/gentoo/var/ /mnt/gentoo/newvar
>
> Make sure to include the trailing slash on the source dir. I did a little
> test as well and found that times are preserved on all files except
> symlinks - but that shouldn't matter.

Yes, yes, yes!
I have been playing with LVM, and installing a new drive in my fileserver, so 
have had to do lots of partition moves, rsync is the perfect tool for it.

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Mike Williams
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