-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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. - -- Mike Williams -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/t1HYInuLMrk7bIwRAoQWAJ4w1D1ha2LXmPcxeDTQtiAN0JTZYwCgr8hd HPMFqXO0KbaqxaXflTosZoc= =87og -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list