[PLUG] Moving in to the new partitions
Wil Cooley
wcooley at nakedape.cc
Sat Dec 27 23:17:02 UTC 2003
On Sat, 2003-12-27 at 22:13, Evan Heidtmann wrote:
> Thanks to everyone! I managed to get my hands on parted and a bootdisk
> and now have new partitions waiting to become /tmp, /var, /usr, and
> /home. I am now looking at how to copy all the files in the current
> /var, /usr, and /home to their new partitions. I tried cp, but that
> destroys all the permissions and ownerships. I can restore these by
> hand, but is there a better tool?
Try 'cp -a'.
Wil
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