Thanks, Todd :-)
j
--- Todd Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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.
> --
> tlyons at mandrakesoft dot com
> http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en
>
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