Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> So sprach Brian Caffrey am Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 06:16:29PM -0800:
> > The only problem with this
> > that I have found is that all hard links will become
> > there own file, hence more disk space usage.
>
> Ah! So tar *breaks* things, whereas cp
So sprach Brian Caffrey am Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 06:16:29PM -0800:
> tar cf - * | tar xvf - -C /mnt/newusr
Well, but why did it not work for me the last time? I had a problem with
hardlinks when doing tar. I tried to copy /bin which contains a hardlink
from zcat to gzip - after the tar zcat was
On 01.26 David Dennis wrote:
> why take a chance your links or dot files will be missed with a mv or cp
> when tar gets it all and preserves everything 100% with one command
> ? just curious.
>
'cp -a' does it all right, I used it to change my drive and cloned all
my system. It works ok with d
>
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> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [expert] Summary: How to move /usr to another partition
>
> Hi,
>
> I think you should be able to do this:
>
> 1. Make the new partition of sufficient size. /dev/hd? whatever,
> 2. init 1
Hi,
I think you should be able to do this:
1. Make the new partition of sufficient size. /dev/hd? whatever,
2. init 1
3. mount /dev/hd? /mnt
4. mv /usr /mnt (I'm not 100% sure this will preserve softlinks)
5. umount /mnt
6. umount /usr
7. mount /dev/hd? /usr
8. edit /etc/fstab to reflect the
Greetings again,
Thanks for all the replies re: How to move /usr to another partition? It's nice to
know that what
i was working with SHOULD have worked, on principle. Here is a brief summary of the
"How to move
/usr to another partition?" thread.
1. Resize partition, using Partition Magic or
