John Wolford wrote:
> 2. copy:
> # cp -a /usr /mnt
Very good procedure. As an adder, I would like to highlight that the
gentleman you were responding to mentioned the need for the -ax option.
x keeps it within the same file system.
For those that don't know what this means, suppose you have /usr as
/dev/hda7 and /usr/local/dev/hda8. You want to move /usr to /dev/hda9.
So you mount /dev/hda9 to /mnt/usr and begin the copy command. If you
specify -x, you will copy all of /usr EXCEPT /usr/local/*. This may not
be a big deal for some people, but on my personal system /usr/local is
2x the size of /usr by itself.
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