[PLUG] Moving in to the new partitions
Rich Shepard
rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Sun Dec 28 08:42:02 UTC 2003
On Sat, 27 Dec 2003, 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
^^^^
Best to make /usr/local separate, not all of /usr. The latter will be
overwritten during upgrades, the former will not.
> /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?
Perhaps 'tar'? I've never tried to copy from one filesystem to another
with the same name.
Rich
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